Squatting as Rent-seeking and Pressure-group Competition: A South African Case-Study

Cedric D. Nathan and Zane Spindler
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Cedric D. Nathan: School of Economics, University of Cape Town, 7700 Rondebosch, Republic of South Africa

Urban Studies, 1993, vol. 30, issue 3, 477-494

Abstract: A new squatting phenomenon in South Africa is analysed from a rent-seeking, pressure-group perspective. While such squatting may play an expanded role in privatising publicly- and even privately-held land and in redistributing wealth over the near future, in the longer term its expansion will tend to be limited by rent-protecting and counter-innovation as long as this rent-seeking competition stays within the bounds set by constitutional government.

Date: 1993
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