| Title: | The reverse side of the medal: about the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the beautification of the N2 in Cape Town |
| Author: | Newton, Caroline |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Periodical: | Urban Forum |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 93-108 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| External link: | http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12132-009-9048-y.pdf |
| Abstract: | This paper aims to show the reverse side of the (football) medal in South Africa. The N2 gateway project in Cape Town is presented, by government and media, as a ‘flagship’ project of the new Breaking New Ground strategy, to fight the housing backlog of 400,000 houses in the city. The paper argues, however, that the fast-tracking of the project has to be understood as a beautification strategy to prepare the city for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Massive slum eradication and the construction of ‘beautiful formal housing opportunities’ between the airport and the mother city are becoming a painful reminder of the forced removals under the apartheid regime. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
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