Robinson, Jenny2011-05-092011-05-091991-07http://hdl.handle.net/10539/9683African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented July 1991This paper addresses two problems within the analysis of South African society. The one, that of the nature of the state, has been the focus of a great deal of intellectual activity. The other, the spatiality of South African society, is more remarkable for its absence from published work: an absence which the intensely geographical nature of our society calls upon us urgently to redress. These two problems - the state and space - are, I will argue, very much inter-related, both in the history of South Africa, and more generally at a theoretical or analytical level.enCities and towns. South AfricaUrbanization. South Africa. HistoryWorking Paper