More needs to be done to address apartheid spatial planning – report

The government has made progress in deconstructing the apartheid legacy of spatial planning to a democratic one. 

This was according to deputy minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs, Andries Nel, who spoke ahead of the release of the State of the Cities report in Johannesburg yesterday. 

Click here to see our interactive graphic on how the legacy of aparthied spatial planning still lives on

Even with the progress that the Nel highlighted, the report recommends that more needs to be done for spatial transformation. South African cities also need to pursue and “address sprawl, exclusion, fragmentation and inefficiencies in cities”. 

The South African Cities Network publishes the report every five years. It looks at Buffalo City, Cape Town, Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, Johannesburg, Mangaung, Msunduzi, Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane.