Check the beam for a sediment of a past regime of knowledge & power over shack dwellers

The Urban Foundation was the response of capital, working within the World Bank’s then consensus, to the late apartheid influx into the cities. Then it was all self-help, popular entrepreneurship – ‘you can live in a shack and develop yourself from there, your future is in your own hands’. Now it is mostly, as it was in the 50s, ‘slum clearance’ – you are a blight on the landscape – you will be dumped in a rural ghetto’. Unsurprisingly the Urban Foundation is remembered fondly in this time of evictions.