Abstract
At the southern tip of Africa, culmination of one of the world's great population shifts is there for the witnessing: a southward movement of Bantu-speaking Black Africans, previously stalled in South Africa's Eastern Cape first by climatic factors and later by European-imposed racial segregation. Cape Town, throughout its demographic history a "Coloured" and "White" city, is now Africanizing. Liberation from apartheid has brought rapid African influx, and the metropolitan population has more than doubled in less than twenty years. Sociocultural tensions and sociocultural possibilities ensue.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 617-640 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Geographical Review |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2001 |
Keywords
- Africa
- Cape Town
- Demographic change
- Migration
- Racism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth-Surface Processes