Smith, Laila2012-02-292012-02-292010http://hdl.handle.net/10625/48396Exploring how spatial patterns of water provision in South Africa reinforce urban inequities requires examining distributive and procedural modes of justice. This paper illustrates how South Africa has moved from a notion of distributive justice (the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) of 1994 which promised universal delivery of social welfare provision), to a skewed version of procedural justice through the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) policy, which adopts the market as the main social and environmental mechanism for service distribution. Power relations embedded in the urbanization of Cape Town and its resulting inequalities in the distribution of water problematizes the logic of economic “growth.”1 digital file (22 p.)application/pdfenWATER MANAGEMENTAPARTHEIDDISTRIBUTION OF WATERPUBLIC SERVICESPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOLITICAL ECOLOGYPRIVATIZATIONURBAN POORACCESS TO WATERPOLITICAL WILLBASIC NEEDSACCESS TO RESOURCESSERVICE DELIVERYSOUTH AFRICASOUTH OF SAHARAWorking Paper