{"id":16811,"date":"2013-08-27T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=16811"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:31:18","slug":"afrika-teen-2030-een-groot-krotbuurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=16811","title":{"rendered":"Afrika teen 2030: Een groot krotbuurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16812\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16812\" alt=\"Enige plek in Afrika\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte.jpg 259w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte-148x111.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte-31x23.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte-38x28.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/krotte-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enige plek in Afrika<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"According to the UN Population Division, sub-Saharan Africa's annual urban growth rate is 3.6%, almost double the world average.\">Volgens die VN se Bevolkingsafdeling, is sub-Sahara-Afrika se jaarlikse stedelike groeikoers 3,6%, byna dubbel die w\u00eareld se gemiddelde. <\/span><span title=\"About 40% of Africa's more than 1 billion people live in cities and towns, many having migrated from rural areas to escape poverty, drought or conflict.\">Sowat 40% van Afrika se meer as 1 miljard mense woon in stede en dorpe, met baie wat migreer van landelike gebiede om armoede, droogte of konflik te ontsnap. <\/span><span title=\"About 200 million people live in slums.\">Sowat 200 miljoen mense woon in krotbuurte.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"About 200 million people live in slums.\">Dit plaas die gewone beskuldigings dat Apartheid gelei het tot armoede en krotbuurte natuurlik in &#8216;n heel ander lig, want oral in Afrika lyk die verstedelikingspatroon presies dieselfde. In Afrikalande want nooit Apartheid geken het nie, lyk dit tewens heelwat erger as in Suid-Afrika.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"&quot;Africa is urbanizing faster than any other continent, so much so that by 2030, it will cease to be a rural continent,&quot; said Anna Tibaijuka, executive director of UN-Habitat, the UN agency for human settlements.\">&#8220;Afrika is besig om vinniger as enige ander kontinent te verstedelik, soveel so dat in 2030, sal dit ophou om &#8216;n landelike vasteland te wees,&#8221; s\u00ea Anna Tibaijuka, uitvoerende direkteur van die VN-Habitat, die VN se agentskap vir menslike nedersettings. <\/span><span title=\"&quot;Despite this, few African leaders are taking the issue seriously.&quot;\">&#8220;Ten spyte hiervan, neem min Afrika-leiers die saak ernstig op.&#8221; <\/span><span title=\"African governments have done little to manage rapid urbanization and don't formally recognize slums.\">Afrika-regerings het min gedoen om die snelle verstedeliking te bestuur en erken nie formeel krotbuurte as sulks nie.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"Slums are not provided with public services, like electricity, sewerage systems, waste management, roads, housing and access to health care or education.\">Krotbuurte word gewoonlik nie voorsien van openbare dienste, soos elektrisiteit, riolering, afvalbestuur, paaie, behuising en toegang tot gesondheidsorg of onderwys nie. <\/span><span title=\"And more than a quarter of Africa's slum dwellers don't have access to safe drinking water, according to the UN Environment Programme.\">En meer as &#8216;n kwart van Afrika se krotbewoners het nie toegang tot veilige drinkwater nie, volgens die VN se Omgewingsprogram. &#8216;n Vyfde het geen toegang tot sanitasiegeriewe nie.<\/span><span title=\"A whopping 175 million people don't have what's considered reasonable sanitation.\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"That's not going to change soon because Africa's annual spending on infrastructure is 45 billion dollars, African Development Bank statistics showed, while almost twice that amount is needed to address the biggest problems.\">Dit gaan nie gou verander nie, want Afrika se jaarlikse besteding aan infrastruktuur is 45 miljard dollar, het die African Development Bank se statistieke getoon, terwyl byna twee keer die bedrag nodig is om die grootste probleme aan te spreek.<\/span><span title=\"As the population of Lagos grows by 8% every year, the slums and their associated problems are growing with it, fuelling crime and increasing social tensions.\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"Sub-Saharan Africa's largest city, Lagos, Nigeria, is a prime example of poor planning.\">Sub-Sahara-Afrika se grootste stad, Lagos, Nigeri\u00eb, is &#8216;n goeie voorbeeld van swak beplanning. <\/span><span title=\"The city of 11 million people, two-thirds of whom are slum dwellers, is infamous for its overcrowding, potholed streets, traffic jams, frequent power cuts and poor sanitation.\">Die stad van 11 miljoen mense, twee-derdes daarvan krotbewoners, is berug vir sy oorbevolking, slaggate in strate, verkeersknope, gereelde kragonderbrekings en swak sanitasie. <\/span><span title=\"&quot;Lagos has fewer infrastructures than any of the other largest cities in the world,&quot; Lagos Town Planning and Urbanization Commissioner Francisco Abosede told the UN news service IRIN.\">&#8220;Lagos het minder infrastruktuur as enige van die ander grootste stede in die w\u00eareld,&#8221; het &#8216;n amptenaar aan die VN-nuusagentskap Irin ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"As the population of Lagos grows by 8% every year, the slums and their associated problems are growing with it, fuelling crime and increasing social tensions.\">Terwyl die bevolking van Lagos teen 8% per jaar <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"As the population of Lagos grows by 8% every year, the slums and their associated problems are growing with it, fuelling crime and increasing social tensions.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"As the population of Lagos grows by 8% every year, the slums and their associated problems are growing with it, fuelling crime and increasing social tensions.\">groei<\/span><\/span>, groei die krotbuurte en die gepaardgaande probleme daarmee saam, skep dit brandstof vir misdaad en verhoog maatskaplike spanning.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"The situation is not much different in Africa's largest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.\">Die situasie is nie veel verskillend in Afrika se grootste krotbuurt, Kibera, aan die buitewyke van die Keniaanse hoofstad, Nairobi nie. <\/span><span title=\"The city's slums have become &quot;an urban time bomb,&quot; said James Njuguna, project officer at the Irish non-profit organization Concern International in Nairobi.\">Die stad se krotbuurte het &#8220;&#8216;n stedelike tydbom&#8221; geword, s\u00ea een projekbeampte van &#8216;n NRO.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"Kibera's estimated 2 million people are a huge underclass with serious consequences for Nairobi's security and social fabric, Njuguna warned.\">Kibera se geskatte 2 miljoen mense is &#8216;n groot onderklas met ernstige gevolge vir Nairobi se sekuriteit en sosiale struktuur, het Njuguna gewaarsku. <\/span><span title=\"Frustrated young people often join violent criminal gangs.\">Gefrustreerde jong mense gaan dikwels saam gewelddadige kriminele bendes. <\/span><span title=\"&quot;The standard of living in the slums is constantly deteriorating,&quot; Njuguna said.\">&#8220;Die standaard van die lewe in die krotbuurte versleg <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"&quot;The standard of living in the slums is constantly deteriorating,&quot; Njuguna said.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"&quot;The standard of living in the slums is constantly deteriorating,&quot; Njuguna said.\">voortdurend<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><span title=\"&quot;We see rising school dropout rates, poverty, malnutrition and crime. There are no social services. &quot;Unless governments make major political changes, cities like Nairobi might explode with social unrest.&quot;\">Ons sien stygende skooluitsaksyfers, armoede, wanvoeding en misdaad. Daar is geen maatskaplike dienste nie. Tensy regerings groot politieke veranderinge teweeg bring, gaan stede soos Nairobi ontplof met sosiale onrus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"That's also true of South Africa.\">Dit is ook waar van Suid-Afrika. <\/span><span title=\"A quarter of South Africans are unemployed, and huge numbers of jobless have been migrating to Johannesburg and Cape Town, the country's two major cities.\">&#8216;n Kwart van Suid-Afrikaners is werkloos, en groot getalle werkloses migreer na Johannesburg en Kaapstad, die land se twee groot stede.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"&quot;Government has been struggling to cope with the huge influx of people, to solve infrastructure problems and provide services,&quot; said Thuthukani Ndebele, a researcher at the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.\">&#8220;Die regering sukkel met die groot instroming van mense, om infrastruktuurprobleme op te los en dienste te lewer,&#8221; s\u00ea Thuthukani Ndebele, &#8216;n navorser by die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge in Johannesburg. Sulke toestande sal &#8216;n vrugbare teelaarde skep vir Ekonomiese Vryheidsvegters en jong &#8220;MK-veterane&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volgens die VN se Bevolkingsafdeling, is sub-Sahara-Afrika se jaarlikse stedelike groeikoers 3,6%, byna dubbel die w\u00eareld se gemiddelde. Sowat 40% van Afrika se meer as 1 miljard mense woon in stede en dorpe, met baie wat migreer van landelike gebiede om armoede, droogte of konflik te ontsnap. Sowat 200 miljoen mense woon in krotbuurte. 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