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Table L15: A typology of social categories in the informal urban fringe surrounding
Durban (continued).
Category Description
9. Lumpenproletariat This group is permanent or moves from area to
area and comprises less than 5% of the urban
fringe. The group consists of tenants and subtenants.
and is an assorted category of social or
economic refugees including beer-brewers.
pickpockets and prostitutes
Source: After Schlemmer, L. and Ml2IlIer. V.• 1982. Informal peri-urban communities
and planning needs. CASS Report No. 38/82. Centre for Applied Social
Sciences. University of Natal, Durban, 32 p.
See also: Schlemmer. L., 1985. Part 2: Influx control. black urbanization. migrants
and squatters. Chapter 12. Squatter communities: safety valves in the
rural-urban nexus, In: Giliomee. H. and Schlemmer. L. leds). Up Against the
Fences: Poverty. Passes and Privilege in South Africa, David Philip Publisher.
Cape Town. p. 167 - 191.
Note: The individual categories constitute an overview. There is a variety of social
types and accommodation arrangements. These range from the traditional
allocation of land by a chief to the renting of sites by landholders or
occupiers; the sub-letting of sites by tenants. and the renting of rooms or
shacks by landholders and tenants. The proportions of the various
categories are estimates only.
12.8 The size of households in black settled areas of NatallKwaZulu
Accurate information on the size of households and the overall population in black settled
areas is an important design parameter for water supply and sanitation planning. Such
data are available from the population census which is conducted at intervals by the