Mediation and the contradictions of representing the urban poor in South Africa: The case of SANCO leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa.

dc.contributor.authorPiper, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorBénit-Gbaffou, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-02T12:05:44Z
dc.date.available2021-02-02T12:05:44Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe formal system of local governance in South Africa has the ‘ward’ as its lowest and smallest electoral level — a spatial unit consisting of between 5,000 and 15,000 voters. The ward is equivalent to the ‘constituency’ in much of the rest of the world. Notably, the history of South Africa means that the vast majority of people live in ‘communities’ or neighbourhoods that are far smaller in scale than the ward, and most of these are the site of multiple claims of informal leadership by a variety of local organisations and their leaders. For example, the Cape Town ward, in which our case study is located, includes at least five different communities, distinguished in racial and class terms.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPiper, L., & Bénit-Gbaffou, C. (2014). Mediation and the contradictions of representing the urban poor in South Africa: The case of SANCO leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa. In: von Lieres B., Piper L. (eds) Mediated Citizenship. Frontiers of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-137-40531-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1057/9781137405319_2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5816
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan, Londonen_US
dc.subjectLocal leadersen_US
dc.subjectGreen belten_US
dc.subjectSouth African National Civic Organen_US
dc.subjectDominant partyen_US
dc.subjectDouble dealingen_US
dc.titleMediation and the contradictions of representing the urban poor in South Africa: The case of SANCO leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa.en_US
dc.typeBooken_US

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