It was part of the state's overall development strategy for 'decentralization of overpopulated areas' •9. At the official opening of the industrial carplex days later, then Hillister of Economic Affairs fu. By the end of the year, the South African Labor Bulletin recorded that the following large-scale returns had taken place at Atlantis:.
At the end of the year, the planning consortium produced another draft of the structure plan. In the case of the colored population, this can be interpreted as a form of influx control. Similarly, none of the 31- to 40-year-old HIllis women in the sample population had any education beyond the standard.
In the rest of the analysis, all workers (both full-time and part-time) are referred to as "employed". In the rest of the population (including spouses), only detailed incx:xre information was recorded for employed and pensioners. An even more telling indicator of the scarcity of work in the Weste:m Cape is that 1 in 20 employed Atlantis matriculants.
EMPLOYMENT AND SECROR: By definition, virtually 3 in 4 of professionals (76.1%) work in the public sector.
EMPLOYEES FOR AND INFIME: While the CO!llTOl1 sense relationship between these two variables was generally true, with only 11.7% of those at levels above semi-skilled earning R350 or less per month, and 70.9% of the laborers who dropped in this category the semi-skilled workers again did not perform as expected. Even more pronounced than the difference between semi-skilled and laborers was the gender difference. The semi-skilled and laborers bear the brunt of retren- chrrent it SeeIT'S. While 76.3% of HHHs are employed at these levels, 88.2% of the unemployed were semi-skilled workers and labourers.
PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT: Despite being limited by a large population whose place of employment was not known. 7.3%) we can say with absolute certainty that 44.4% of employed households worked outside of Atlantis and that at least 3 out of 10 of all employed residents (29.5%) work outside of Atlantis.
Of those HHH currently working outside of Atlantis, 25.5% work in the Cape T = municipality area, a similar proportion (25.9%) in Milnerton, 24.1% in Melkbos and the Koeberg P=er plant, 22 , 5% work elsewhere in the Western Cape and 2.0% work outside the Western Cape. EWIDY!'1ENTLOCATICN AND GENDER: The majority of those who go to look for work outside Atlantis (75.9%) are men, while they make up just over half (52.6%) of Atlantis residents who work locally. The extreme vulnerability of the population to dONn-turns in the economy was emphasized by the large difference in the share of local and foreign workers employed in production.
A slightly larger share of unemployed households (63.6%) already worked in Atlantis than currently employed households (55.5%). The reason is probably due to the fact that those HHHs who keep their jobs outside when they go to Atlantis do so because of the greater security these jobs seem to offer. Proportionately m::Jre m::Jst unstable workers, those who had m::Jre than three jd:>s from m::Jving to Atlantis, are currently wrongfully employed in Atlantis.
Duration: Most of the unemployed llliHs (74.4%) were out of work in the previous year. Mainly because of the expense involved, many don't even bother to look for work outside of Atlantis. Most of the rest (47.0%) said they were also looking elsewhere, while 1.5% said they were only looking elsewhere.
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Once again, the percentage of unemployed HHHs who were ignorant of the existence of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). Third, in the construction industry, many of the houses are apparently built by subcontractors. Workers are told that main contractors only pay subcontractors for building houses.
First, many of the nuclear families had mistaken several families before they went to Atlantis or before they went to their sanctuaries in Atlantis. In 7% of SHORT at least one additional room (usually living room) is used for sleeping purposes. Population mobility was also illustrated by the fact that only 36.8% of HHHs said they had lived in only one area (as defined in Table 28) before moving to Atlantis.
The explanation is that a much larger share of currently unemployed and economically inactive households was previously employed than unskilled and semi-skilled workers. At least half of the households (52.4%) had electricity, indoor water and toilets in their pre-Atlantean homes.
Therefore, no investigation into the full story of Atlantis will be complete without the evidence of those who chose or were forced to leave. They probably account for a significant proportion of the =rent of the 'extra CCl!lpOI1ent' of households .. sore, hCMever, are simply a reflection of the natural growth in the population of young people who lived with their parents in Atlantis before the March: they cry and rush to the horrors of their CMn. MAY 1986: Closely related to the employer and low wage problems is the problem of affordability of living in Atlantis.
The problem with rents, hONever, seems to stem from the way rents are defined and the ION inoorres of most households in the household. Many of the more dubious sales practices that lead to HP's huge debts are alive and well and practiced at Atlantis. The three sanple families had no provision and said they lived off the generosity of others.
More than 7 in 10 of the poorest group (72.0%) spend more than half of their income on food, while only 1 in 8 of the over 400 group (12.9%) spend more than half of their income. for food. h). The boarders occupied a room in the apartment and shared a carmon table with the completely dependent breadwinners of the family, but took care of all their expenses from their own debts. There is also no appreciation for the very few boarders and residents who make up multiple families separated because of us.
Using standards appropriate for each household size, 165 of the 570 assessed households (28.9%) lived according to the MLL and 236 assessed households (41.4%) lived according to the SLL. We received a wide variety of responses, from: 'I leave my problems to De Man Boven' to: 'There are just too many problems'. At the top of the list was unemployment and the belief that industrialists who open factories usually bring in many of their workers and offer only a few, if any, JCBS to the residents of Atlantis.
SUMMARY: Our detailed 113-question survey, conducted in Atlantis in May 1986, focused primarily on the heads of the 620 households we visited. Based on the occupancy rate of 5.6 persons per household of the survey sample population, these houses would have housed a total population of 35 896. This is based on the fact that 42.5% of the population was employed or looking for work.
The so-called shortage was also 'created' in part by the fact that, according to the Group Area Act, only 27% of the largest 'coloured' population was allocated. of the land in the Western Cape, while 'whites' were allocated 72%. Bureau of Market Research - Minimum and Supplementary Living Conditions for Non-White Residents of Main and Other Selected Urban Areas in the Republic of South Africa - February 1986 - Unisa.
