Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, John Howe trans. (London and New York: Verso, 1995).
Mandy de Waal, “Anton Harber’s Diepsloot, a slayer of township stereotypes,” Daily Maverick (July 14, 2011), ➝.
Tanya Pampalone, “Life in the Magic Kingdom,” Cityscapes: Urban Beyond Geography (Cape Town: African Centre for Cities, 2015), ➝.
A promotional video puts this figure at 2000 acres of land, six times the size of Johannesburg’s CBD, and half of which is park land. See: “STEYN CITY: Take the Grand Tour,” Steyn City (March 31, 2015), ➝. In 2012, Steyn bought a home in the UK priced at £62.75 million.
Alec Hogg, “Douw’s R250m Palazzo Steyn reflects ‘confidence in SA’,” Biznews (December 1, 2014), ➝.
Other comparable satellite cities on the African continent include: Tatu City and Konza Techno City (Kenya); Appolonia, Hope City and King City (Ghana); and La Cite du Fleuve (Rwanda). See: ➝.
Christopher Hope, “Now everyone lives in the townships,” The Guardian (February 28, 2005), ➝.
Vanessa Watson, “African urban fantasies: Dreams or nightmares?,” Environment and Urbanization 26, no. 1 (2013): 215. Philip Harrison, Alan Mabin, Edgar Pieterse, Federica Duca, Richard Ballard, Margot Rubin, Karina Landman, Mpho Matsipa, Jennifer Robinson and Alison Todes, among others, also offer helpful critiques of citymaking with respect to spatial justice.
Workshop and Exhibition: Gated Communities and Townhouses, November 7, 2018, PARI, ➝.
A digital storymap of this journey is available here: ➝.
“The Sunday Times Rich List 2021,” ➝.
“Meet the 9 South African billionaires featured on the 2019 UK Rich List,” BusinessTech (May 13, 2019), ➝
Compare the Market, ➝.
“simples!,” Collins, ➝.
Alex Mistlin, “They wanted my meerkat to sound like a Russian Alan Sugar – meet TV’s secret superstars,” The Guardian (August 9, 2021), ➝.
Bobby de Beer, personal interview with the author, May 9, 2018, Salt River, Cape Town.
Luke Lentin, personal interview with the author, February 20, 2018, Salt River, Cape Town, original emphasis.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, As if: Idealization and ideals (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017), 1.
Ibid., 4.
Ibid., 171.
“Compare the Market – Hooray,” 2018, ➝.
Alec Hogg, “Douw Steyn’s UK business CEO – Disrupting insurance paves way for R6.5bn Mega City,” BizNews (September 22, 2015), ➝.
Personal interview with the author, Salt River, February 8, 2018.
“Compare the Market – Hooray.”
Teresa Caldeira, “Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south,” Environment and Planning 35, no. 1 (2017): 5.
Dorothy Ndletyana and Yasmin Coovadia, “Land use decision-making: The case of Diepsloot and Steyn City,” 2015, ➝
Phone interview with the author, October 18, 2021.
This article is an outcome of Green Screen, a research project in the Centre for Humanities Research at University of the Western Cape, South Africa, where the author held a Next Generation Research fellowship (2018–2020). Thanks to the entire team of Sets & Devices, especially Bobby de Beer, Nawawie Mathews, and Brett Blake.