AYABONGA CAWE: How spatial inequality still constrains Gqeberha residents’ productivity
Segregation and the incomplete tasks of building access to cheap transport and well-located housing has left a pernicious legacy, study shows
06 May 2024 - 05:00
In 1883, one Enoch Hlangoboza signed a petition on behalf of black property owners and voters in the Native Strangers Location on Russell Road in then Port Elizabeth when they were facing eviction from the burgeoning city centre.
“Strangers”, as the township was called, was according to a later Cape parliamentary report “occupied by the most respectable and well-to-do class of natives” having been established through a land grant by Cape Colony governor George Grey in 1855. ..
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