A divided city: Cape Town |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP — Univ. Estadual Paulista, Caunesp, Campus de Botucatu — Rubião Jr., 18618-970 Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil;2. Laboratório de Neurofisiologia Comparada, Departamento de Fisiologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, Monte Alegre, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil;3. Departamento de Morfologia e Fisiologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Caunesp, UNESP — Univ. Estadual Paulista, Via de Acesso Prof. Paulo Donato Castelane, 14884-900 Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil;1. Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland;2. Institute of Soil Sciences and Environmental Protection, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzka 53, 50-357 Wroclaw, Poland;3. Laboratory of Paleobotany, Department of Stratigraphical Geology, University of Wrocław, Poland;4. Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA;5. Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | A sketch of Cape Town’s history since its 1652 foundation is offered. A mixed Afro–euro–asian people, the Coloureds, evolved during the era of Dutch and then British colonialism. By the time of apartheid’s imposition from 1948 onwards they had become Cape Town’s majority population group. Now, half a century later, the defeat of apartheid has brought a great influx of Black African poor from distant parts of South Africa, persons whom White rule’s infamous Pass Laws had formerly prohibited from Cape Town. The results: the metropolis has in the last twenty years doubled in population and has not only seen an immense growth in self-built shantytowns and in basic low-income housing, but also a change in complexion. An African majority is now in view, with attendant social tensions and social possibilities. |
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