{"id":242717,"date":"2018-05-07T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=242717"},"modified":"2018-05-07T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:07:04","slug":"too-many-people-are-coming-to-gauteng-and-a-lot-of-residents-want-influx-control-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/242717\/too-many-people-are-coming-to-gauteng-and-a-lot-of-residents-want-influx-control-back\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Too many people are coming to Gauteng’ – and a lot of residents want influx-control back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urbanisation has ballooned in Gauteng over the past decade, with millions more expected to move into the province within the coming years.<\/p>\n

This is according to a new report<\/a> <\/strong>by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) which found that the province experienced net migration from other provinces of 904,619 people from 2006 to 2011 and 981,290 people from 2011 to 2016.<\/p>\n

With Statistics South Africa projecting that between 2016 and 2021 another million people could be added to the population – current residents are beginning to feel the effects.<\/p>\n

“Gauteng’s established population has not always received this process of normalisation in positive terms, and there remains considerable sympathy for regulating urbanisation,” the GCRO said.<\/p>\n

“When asked\u00a0whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement \u2018there are too many people coming to Gauteng, we should bring back influx-control\u2019, 43% of respondents agreed that influx-control should be reinstated.”<\/p>\n

While this is a significant portion of residents, it still means that the majority (57%) are not in favour of such measures.<\/p>\n

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Suburbs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Support for bringing back influx-control was more prevalent in some wards than in others, said the GCRO.<\/p>\n

“In wards with dark shading, between 59% and 83% of the respondents agreed that influx-control should be reinstated.<\/p>\n

“These wards were scattered throughout the province but some distinct clusters appeared in and around Pretoria, south-west of Johannesburg, and a stretch between Vanderbijlpark and Springs in the south-eastern parts Gauteng.<\/p>\n

“By contrast, in wards with light shading, a quarter or less of the respondents were supportive of the idea of influx-control. These included some of Johannesburg\u2019s affluent northern suburbs,” it said.<\/p>\n

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Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n

While one might expect that the areas most in support of influx-control would also be the areas where a lot of migrants settle, the data shows that almost the exact opposite is true.<\/p>\n

Wards with higher proportions of migrants were mostly on the western edge of Gauteng (between Carletonville and Krugersdorp) and in a few other clusters throughout the province.<\/p>\n

In contrast, areas like Soweto, and the stretch between Vanderbijlpark and Springs, were home to much lower proportions of migrants.<\/p>\n

“Many explanations for this set of results are possible,” the GCRO said.<\/p>\n

These include:<\/p>\n