Democracy, cities and space: South African conceptions of local government

[摘要] In 1988 the Soweto People's Delegation and the councils of Soweto,Diepmeadow and Dobsonville began to negotiate an end to the rent boycott andthe crisis in the provision of services. Discussions between civic bodies and localgovernment officials - which eventually resulted in the Soweto accord - wereincreasingly infonned by the slogan 'one city, one tax base'. In the wake of theaccord, other parties to similarly established negotiations commonly based theirapproach on the 'one city' slogan. As a result, local government negotiations andthe institutional arrangements that followed were increasingly infonned by thisnotion. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand