Middle classing in Roodepoort: capitalism and social change in South Africa

LONG ESSAY | JUNE 2012

This essay explores social change in South Africa since the end of apartheid by considering the kinds of communities that are emerging in the new townhouse developments on the western edge of Johannesburg.

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