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This product contains all the work for Social Sciences (Geography) Grade 8, term 3 – based on the “Today” textbook in English. Geography Topic 3:  Settlement: Unit 1:  Settlement and land use. Unit 2:  Land use on aerial photographs and large-scale maps. Unit 4:  Urbanisation.

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, The concept of urbanisation
• Pull factors – jobs, education, services, housing and healthcare.
• Push factors – decreased soil fertility, lack of jobs and disasters.
• Reasons for counter-migration – urban vulnerability.




Impact of rural-urban
migration in South Africa
• Impact on rural areas:



Sample U4:
Urbanisation
o Rural depopulation.
o Decline in food and crops.
o Increased rural poverty.
o Soil erosion and deforestation.

• Impact on urban areas:


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Social issues related to the
rapid growth of cities
o Migrants cause informal settlements.
o Strain is placed on schools, hospitals and services.
o Increased unemployment and crime.



• Rapid urbanisation causes housing shortages
Apartheid population controls
and more informal settlements.
• Shortages of hospitals and schools. and urbanisation in SA
• Overcrowded hospitals and schools.
• Apartheid was based on racial segregation and population control.
• Staff and equipment shortages.
• White people lived in well-developed urban settlements, and black
• Not enough funding and poverty.
people lived in rural areas.
• Bantustans/homelands housed different groups of black people.
• Migrant workers spent lots of money travelling from townships and
dormitory settlements to get to work.




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