About the contributor: Rod Burgess and M.S. Badenhorst

Rod Burgess is a senior lecturer at the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brooks University, UK and has lectured and written widely on Third World development and planning issues, third world housing problems, and Latin American urban politics.

Sakkie Badenhorst is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Pretoria.