UNDERSTANDING WHERE, WHEN AND HOW PEOPLE EXPERIENCE INEQUALITY AND HOW THIS AFFECTS THEIR ATTACHMENT TO PLACE AND SENSE OF INCLUSION

The objective of Theme 2 is to undertake focus groups to explore factors and processes that shape people's experience of inequality and whether such experiences shape people's sense of attachment to place and sense of belonging and decisions about which places and spaces to inhabit and which places and spaces to avoid in the City of Cape Town broadly. 

A total of 15 focus groups discussions have been undertaken with different groups from a range of communities across the City of Cape Town. The groups were conducted over a three-month period between late May and late August 2017 and were conducted in English, isiXhosa or Afrikaans, as appropriate. 

Participants were given refreshments and a Pick ‘n’ Pay or Shoprite voucher to thank them for their time, and where necessary they were given a small contribution towards local transport costs for their travel to and from the venue. 

The groups successfully captured a wide range of experiences of living in the City of Cape Town area. 

The focus group recordings are in the process of being transcribed, and (when necessary) translated into English. The transcripts will then be analysed by the research team, using the Nvivo software. The transcripts will be prepared for submission to the UK Data Archive at the end of the project.