ABSTRACT

This chapter explains the combined effects of a number of legislative instruments, together with a new and potent post-apartheid urban land market, have tended to not only preserve the spatial segregation of apartheid systems but to reinforce them and introduce new forms of urban segregation in South African cities. Apartheid urban segregation was a very complex system enforced by a wide range of complex and overlapping legislation. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) provided an important strategic framework for the creation of non-racial democratic society in South Africa. The Urban Development Framework (1997) identified three programmes for the transformation of the apartheid city: Spatial Restructuring, Social and Economic Development, and Institutional Restructuring. The primary objective of the Development Facilitation Act (DFA) 1995 was to guide the process of transformation of urban land use towards more sustainable integrated city development. Integrated Development Plans (IDP) is planning tools that require long-term planning be reflected in the municipality's five year IDP.