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dc.contributor.author | Ntakirutimana, Ezekiel![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-30T09:52:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-30T09:52:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-23 | |
dc.description | This article forms part of a collaborative research project entitled ‘Religious innovation and competition amidst urban social change: a Pretoria case study’. The project was funded by the Templeton Foundation as part of an African-wide enquiry on ‘Christianity and social change in contemporary Africa’. | en_ZA |
dc.description | The project is also a sub-theme of the ‘Faith in the City’ research project, hosted by the Centre for Contextual Ministry in the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | This article describes the daunting challenge of precarious housing in Salvokop located in the southern part of inner City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province. Insecure tenure, unmaintained dwellings, overcrowding, mushrooming of backyard shacks and the rise of the informal settlement, all that led to deep levels of vulnerability and neighbourhood deterioration. Current conditions show that life in that neighbourhood is fraught as substandard housing degenerated into slum and squalor. This concern emerged among other salient pressing issues of poverty and vulnerability from the World Café and Focus Groups with the inner city churches including those from Salvokop. The article set out to describe precarious housing, unpleasant living conditions owing to the fact that human beings stay in unsuitable dwellings while the environment deteriorates. Taking into account their circumstances, the article’s aim was to recapture the extent to which the residents suffer as a result of living in dwellings unfit for human habitation, rethinking an alternative model to respond. A theological agenda for future ecclesiological engagement was discerned forthwith recommendations. The article makes a contribution towards the theology of the city in that it stimulates church practices and housing of poor people in Tshwane. It does so by engaging in a unique way grassroots knowledge from the different inner city congregations. This process used the platform of surveys, World Café style gatherings and Focus Groups. In conversation with the primary source, this article also contributed with original data generated with the Salvokop residents whose stories helped to expend on horizons of housing, which is acknowledged. All the inner city church contributors of the realisation of the study objectives are also recognised. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Centre for Contextual Ministry | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | am2018 | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.hts.org.za | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Ntakirutimana, E., 2017, ‘Precarious housing in the Salvokop neighbourhood: A challenge to churches in the inner City of Tshwane’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 73(3), a4721. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4721. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0259-9422 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2072-8050 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.4102/hts.v73i3.4721 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66027 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | AOSIS Open Journals | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2017. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Salvokop | en_ZA |
dc.subject | City of Tshwane | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Housing | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Churches | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Precarious housing | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Inner city congregations | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Unpleasant living conditions | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Unsuitable dwellings | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Ecclesiological engagement | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Theology of the city | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Church practices | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Housing of poor people | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Theology article SDG-01 | |
dc.subject.other | SDG-01: No poverty | |
dc.subject.other | Theology articles SDG-03 | |
dc.subject.other | SDG-03: Good health and well-being | |
dc.subject.other | Theology articles SDG-08 | |
dc.subject.other | SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth | |
dc.subject.other | Theology articles SDG-11 | |
dc.subject.other | SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities | |
dc.title | Precarious housing in the Salvokop neighbourhood : a challenge to churches in the inner City of Tshwane | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |