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Home-ownership schemes for black mineworkers: overestimating and underplanning

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It must be concluded that in spite of an interest in home-ownership expressed by interviewees in an earlier study (Market Research Africa 1986), the approach to home-ownership and stabilisation of its work-force undertaken by the Anglo American Corporation has not satisfied the housing needs and aspirations of the majority of employees interviewed in this study. This fundamental inadequacy calls for a new perspective in employer home-ownership schemes which incorporates the hitherto unforeseen or unacknowledged diversity of housing requirements, while progressively reducing the legacy of dependency on the employer. As pressures for democratisation and worker participation in the industry are likely to increase in the 1990s, the planner will be in an important position to effect appropriate changes, and to respond to the needs and aspirations of the population.

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Laburn-Peart, C. Home-ownership schemes for black mineworkers: overestimating and underplanning. Urban Forum 1, 69–82 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03036574

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