RE-IMAGINING POST-APARTHEID YEOVILLE BELLEVUE; the journey and reflections of a resident activist/activist resident
Date
2013-12
Authors
SMITHERS, MAURICE
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South African Research Chair in Development Planning and Modelling, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand.
Abstract
I fi rst began to work in Yeoville Bellevue in 1997/8. Fifteen years later, I’m refl ecting in this research report on what I and my fellow Yeoville Bellevueites have managed to achieve, individually and collectively, in that time. It is my own personal account and I accept that others may have a different story to tell. I hope it’s interesting and that we can all learn something from it. I hope even more fervently that it will, in some way, take the fi ght for a better Yeoville Bellevue (and a better inner city) forward.
Looking back in my archives, I found a table which I drafted in November of 1997 1, setting out matters that I thought needed attention. Amongst these were that:
• Yeoville Bellevue was in urgent need of a socio-economic development policy
• The Community Forum had collapsed and had not been replaced by a credible civic structure
• Parks in the area were unmanaged and in need of proper attention
• There were a number of illegalities and by-law infringements taking place
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Research Report
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Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic development; spatial concentration of economic activity; faster economic growth; human skills
Citation
SMITHERS, MAURICE. 2013. RE-IMAGINING POST-APARTHEID YEOVILLE BELLEVUE; the journey and reflections of a resident activist/activist resident