African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
Abstract
Increasingly stormy seas and sea level rise are beginning to show up the existing fault lines in the engineered, social and institutional strata of the South African coastline. Amidst a legacy of dispossession of black South Africans, privileged access for wealthy whites, and a balancing act of emerging risks, this impressive bulletin and backgrounder asks: who gets to use the coast? A draft policy has been incorporated into Cape Town City’s Spatial Development Framework. Municipal structures are working with provincial authorities to formalise it in terms of the Integrated Coastal Management Act
