Contents
Map of Metro Durban and Central Business District Frontispiece
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors ix
Introduction
Durban: Structures from the Past, Pressures in the
Present, Prospects in the Future 1
Bill Freund and Vishnu Padayachee
Map of political boundary changes in Durban, 1994-2001 8
Part One: The Local State 9
Chapter 1
City Hall and the Direction of Development: 11
The Changing Role of the Local State as a Factor in
Economic Planning and Development in Durban
Bill Freund
Chapter 2
Economic Development for a New Era: An Examination 43
of the Adoption of Explicit Economic Development
Strategies by Durban Local Government since 1994
Peter Hall and Glen Robbim
Part Two: Durban's Economy 65
Chapter 3
The Port of Durban: Lynchpin of the Local Economy? 69
Trevor Jones
Chapter 4
From Import Substituting Industrialisation to Globalised 107
International Competiveness: Industrial Restructuring in
a South Mrican City
Mike Morris, justin Barnes and Nikki Dunne
Chapter 5
Financing Durban's Development: 1970-99 135
Vishnu Padayachee
Part Three: Society and Governance 167
Chapter 6
Segregation, Desegregation and De-racialisation: 171
Racial Politics and the City of Durban
Brij Maharaj
Chapter 7
Breaking the Impasse, Beginning the Change: 195
Labour Market, Unions and Social Initiative in Durban
David Remson
Chapter 8
Contesting the Urban Industrial Environment in South 223
Durban in a Period of Democratisation and Globalisation
David U!tlt)\ Christine Root and Sven Peek
Part Four: Basic Needs 257
Chapter 9
The Apartheid of Basic Facility Provision in the City of 259
Durban with a Focus on Energy
Ulendy Annecke
Chapter 10
The Development of Mass Street Trading in Durban: 283
The Case of Muthi Trading
Stein lnge Nesvag
Chapter 11
Fresh Produce Distribution Networks in the Durban 301
Metropolitan Area
Harald Witt
Index 333