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AAPS¨CAssociation of African Planning Schools
An analysis of the results
of the 1996 census reveals a general decline in urban racial segregation
levels in South Africa since the end of legal apartheid in 1991. However,
the trends are not uniform with Whites remaining both more segregated
and less open to change than the other groups. Africans have become more
integrated, but the majority are constrained in their choice of residential
options by the general levels of poverty. Asian and Coloured people have
witnessed the greatest changes, with significant declines in segregation
levels in the majority of cities as they begin to return to the areas
from which they were forcibly removed in the previous 40 years. However,
segregation levels remain exceptionally high and rapid integration may
require government intervention.
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