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The Gauteng City-Region (GCR) incorporates the three major metropolitan municipalities of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni and is the most important polycentric urban area in southern and South Africa. This article explores the interplay between the politics and planning of urban space in the post-apartheid context in which the GCR is located. This article applies theories of postcolonial and post-apartheid urbanism to analyse the dialectics of politics and planning in city-regions and in relation to their component cities, to help answer the key question: How is politics shaping planning in the GCR in the democratic period, and with what future impact?

In this article we contest the widespread view that the social or political consciousness that developed among South African youth, as a result of their role in the uprisings of the 1980s, led them to reject the authority of the older generation, in their families and generally. Using the results of a national probability-sample survey among youth of the four main race groups in South Africa, we argue that an assumed political consciousness is not a helpful variable to use in understanding South African youth and their attitudes towards the values of their parents. We go on to disaggregate "youth" according to parental presence and roles during childhood; to find various and changing patterns of parenting, including the importance of grandmothers; and to argue that intergenerational attitudes among young people differ importantly according to these differing formative experiences.

This book sets out the parameters of youth development in South Africa and its guiding principles and strategic recommendations, which were adopted by the second National Conference on Marginalised Youth and the National Youth Development Forum. The key issues dealt with are: AIDS; education and its relationship to the world of work; employment creation; and violence and the broad social context. Two continental comparative chapters analyse the brigades of Botswana and youth development initiatives in Kenya and Uganda. (DÜI-Hff)