Townsmen or Tribesmen: Conservatism and the Process of Urbanization in a South African City. By Philip Mayer with contributions by Iona Mayer. Cape Town: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, 1961. Pp. xvi, 306, ill., map. 45s.

Africa ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-173
Author(s):  
Valdo Pons
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
South African City ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
African City ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Oxford University Press

Representing Cape Town on the eve of apartheid

Urban History ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Bickford-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
South African City ◽  
African City ◽  
Racial Study

ABSTRACTThis article attempts a detailed social portrait of Cape Town on the eve of apartheid. In the process it provides a rare cross-racial study of a twentieth-century South African city. The first section reveals a complex place already distinguished by considerable segregation and predictable social inequalities, both between and within racial and ethnic categories. Yet such findings are at odds with popular memories of a golden age – marked by tolerance, greater cohesion and security. So the second section explores and explains the differences. It finds that memories cannot simply be dismissed as myths.

Townsmen or Tribesmen: Conservatism and the Process of Urbanization in a South African City.

Man ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Adam Kuper ◽  
Philip Mayer ◽  
Iona Mayer
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African City ◽  
African City ◽  
Process Of Urbanization
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