Recently, in Upington, our waitress told us with a lot of pride that she lives in a brick house. Obv...

1. We all live in a...
Recently, in Upington, our waitress told us with a lot of pride that she lives in a brick house.
Obviously brick houses are a type of differentiation that exists much like the status associated with
living in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg...
Work to be released soon by TNS on a pan-African socio-economic status (SES) shows that type of
dwelling is one of the key differentiators in socio-economic status across 20 countries in Africa.If you
asked me, before I did this analysis, what type of housing has increased most in South Africa, I
would have guessed shacks and squatter camps. I would have associated this with the migration to
cities and immigration from across the border. I would have been wrong.
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