Johannesburg book: an African city in change / written by Kevin Allan, Graeme Gotz, and Carmel Joseph; edited by Susan De Villiers.

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Allan, Kevin [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextCape Town : Zebra Press, 2001Description: xi, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9781868723775

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DDC classification:

968.221 ALL 020788 23

Summary: In July 1997, the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council was unable to pay an electricity bill of some R300 million. Despte desperate efforts to raise the money, the writing was on the wall: South Africa's financial capital and most powerful metropolis was unable to pay its creditors and had become an unsustainable institution on the brink of collapse. Attempts to redress the financial crisis revealed numerous serious underlying structural and managerial ailments. It gradually also became clear that similar problems existed in many other South African municipalities

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	968.221 ALL 020788 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		020788

In July 1997, the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council was unable to pay an electricity bill of some R300 million. Despte desperate efforts to raise the money, the writing was on the wall: South Africa's financial capital and most powerful metropolis was unable to pay its creditors and had become an unsustainable institution on the brink of collapse. Attempts to redress the financial crisis revealed numerous serious underlying structural and managerial ailments. It gradually also became clear that similar problems existed in many other South African municipalities

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