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Marius Pieterse (author)

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Title	Foreword
Landing page	https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/125
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Copyright	Prof Marius Pieterse
Publisher	UJ Press
Published on	2025-09-02
Short abstract	Urban injustice is tenacious, perhaps especially in postcolonial settings.
Long abstract	Urban injustice is tenacious, perhaps especially in postcolonial settings. It is, for instance, widely acknowledged and frequently asserted that the built form, as well as the physical, social and economic functioning, of South African cities continue to reflect and reinforce the inequalities of the colonial and apartheid eras. Why is this? How did it come to be so? And, most importantly, how can it be countered? These are the questions Eric Nyembezi Makoni grapples with in Pharmakon: Urban Law and the Making of Johannesburg.
Page range	pp. iii–iv

Urban injustice is tenacious, perhaps especially in postcolonial settings. It is, for instance, widely acknowledged and frequently asserted that the built form, as well as the physical, social and economic functioning, of South African cities continue to reflect and reinforce the inequalities of the colonial and apartheid eras. Why is this? How did it come to be so? And, most importantly, how can it be countered? These are the questions Eric Nyembezi Makoni grapples with in Pharmakon: Urban Law and the Making of Johannesburg.