Summaries after sample
, 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:
Summaries after sample
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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