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Local economic development and the municipal services crisis in post-apartheid South Africa

The Case of Stutterheim

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Bond, P. Local economic development and the municipal services crisis in post-apartheid South Africa. Urban Forum 9, 159–196 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03033049

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