Mining and Community in South Africa

Name: Mining and Community in South Africa
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Mining and Community in South AfricaFrom Small Town to Iron Town\nAuthor(s): Philippe Burger, Lochner Marais, Deirdre van Rooyen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367888930, 978-0367888930\nSynopsis\nMining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa. This growth has been accompanied by a proliferation of informal settlements, by pressure to provide basic services and by institutional pressures in local government to support mining. Fragile municipal finance, changing social attributes, the pressures of shift-work on mineworkers, the impact on the physical environment and perceived new inequalities between mineworkers, contract workers and original inhabitants have further complicated matters. Mining growth has however also led to substantial local economic benefits to existing business and it has contributed to a mushrooming of new enterprises.\n\nWhile the relationship between mining and e.