Profiling SA’s system of towns - Introducing the CSIR/SACN South African Settlement Typology Van Huyssteen, E., Mans, G., le Roux, A., Maritz, J., Ngidi, M. & Maditse, K. CSIR, Built Environment Date: February 2016 For more information contact [email protected]Citation: Van Huyssteen, E., Mans, G., le Roux, A., Maritz, J., Ngidi, M. & Maditse, K. 2016. Profiling SA’s system of towns - Introducing the CSIR/SACN South African Settlement Typology. CSIR document. Available on stepsa.org Introduction It is estimated that almost 78% of South Africa’s population reside within cities and towns throughout the so-called urban and rural landscapes. Of the 78%, it was calculated in 2011 that 42% resided within the four City Regions, namely Gauteng, Cape Town, eThekwini and Nelson Mandela Bay; 7.5% lived within Cities, approximately 14% in several large Service Towns and the remainder in smaller towns. Given that a further 12% of South Africans actually reside in high density ‘rural’ settlements and that a mere 14% of the country’s population reside further than 20km away from a formal town or city 1 , it is evident that South Africa can no longer afford to ignore the fact that this country’s development challenges will need to be addressed within its network of cities, towns and settlements. Over the last couple of years, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), together with a number of other role players, has invested in building capability to provide spatial planning, analysis, modelling and platform support to government, with a focus on strengthening strategic regional, inter- regional and intergovernmental planning, resource allocation and monitoring and evaluation in South Africa. The functional settlement typology provides a mechanism to profile, identify, calculate and analyse a set of development information and trends pertaining to the range of towns and cities, as well as high density rural settlements across South Africa. It enables understanding and analyses of the network of settlements, towns and cities and the hierarchical and functional relationships between them (Figure 1), especially related to government and economic service provision and migration. 1 For a definition of settlements (City Regions, Cities, Towns, etc.) see Table 1.1
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Profiling SA’s system of towns - Introducing
the CSIR/SACN South African Settlement
Typology Van Huyssteen, E., Mans, G., le Roux, A., Maritz, J., Ngidi, M. & Maditse, K. CSIR, Built Environment Date: February 2016
Population >1million, Government & Economic Services Index >7 EXAMPLES: Global city region: Gauteng Coastal City regions: Cape Town City Region, eThekwini City Region, Nelson Mandela Bay City Region
Population 500 000 – 1million Government & Economic Services Index 2-5 EXAMPLES (this includes metro’s and secondary city areas) Polokwane Mbombela Pietermaritzburg Buffalo City Mangaung
Regional Service Centres (Bigger and medium sized towns with key roles in the surrounding hinterland)
Regional Centre 1
Population 300 000 -500 000 Government & Economic Services Index 1-2 EXAMPLES Regional Service Centres - high population numbers and high economic activity: Rustenburg Witbank/Middelburg New Castle Richards Bay Regional Centre 2
Population 100 000 - 300 000 Government & Economic Services Index >0.3 EXAMPLES Regional Service Centres - high population numbers in densely settled areas: Mthata Queenstown Thohoyandou Tzaneen Grahamstown Mmabatho
Regional Centre 3
Population 40 000 - 100 000 Government & Economic Services Index >0.25 EXAMPLES Regional Service Centres - low population numbers playing a key role in sparsely populated areas: Kimberley Upington Worcester
Service Town (Medium to smaller sized towns)
Population mostly >20 000 Significant role in hinterland (service Index 0.065-0.25) EXAMPLES Saldanha Groblersdal Piet Retief Bothaville Lichtenburg
Local and Niche Towns
Population size varies widely Service role in immediate surroundings (Service Index 0.001-0.065) EXAMPLES Local Towns: Alice (EC), Koppies (FS) Niche Towns: Clarens (FS), Prince Albert (WC), Riebeeck-Kasteel (WC)
High Density Settlement Areas
Rural Nodes in High Density Settlement Areas - Meso Zones with >100 people/square km OR more than 10 people/square km PLUS Economic activity in service sector - identified as areas within high density settlement areas, with highest levels of access to household income High Density Settlement Areas - Meso Zones with >100 people/square km OR more than 10 people/square km PLUS Economic activity in service sector. These areas typically have very little economic activity, no consolidated town centre/nodes, and a spread out morphological structure.
Rest of South Africa
Less densely populated areas, Sparsely populated areas, mountainous, national parks
Table 1: Functional settlement type (CSIR/SACN Settlement Typology, 2013)
Results
Findings from analyses based on the profiles made available on the StepSA platform, also illustrate
the crucial role that these populated places, and especially city region areas play as economic
engines and job baskets within South Africa. An estimated 57% of the formal economy alone is being
generated in the City Regions. We add to the City Regions the network of Cities and major towns and
this includes more than 80% of the total South African economy. Table 2 provides an overview of the
extent (land area in square kilometres), population and economic activity (using GVA as indicator) for
the various categories of place.
Table 2: Comparative analyses of population and economic activity in South Africa (Van Huyssteen et al, 2013)
The profiles have also been used successfully in the analyses of urban and settlement growth and
changing demographic profiles in South Africa, which place the importance of towns and cities in the
country’s development future firmly on the urban and rural agenda. See the Policy Brief prepared in
this regard “Reaching development outcomes through a dedicated focus” available on
http://stepsa.org/pdf/policy_implication_notes
For more information on the updated CSIR/SACN South African Settlement Typology and related