Jika Joe Case Study

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Introduction.
Millions of people all over the world are forced to make a plan when it comes to living arrangements due to financial restraints or due to disasters. These forced arrangements become known as informal settlements.

An informal settlement is when a large number of people construct housing units on land that they do not legally own so they have no legal claim to live there. Informal settlements have become problematic in mainly 3rd world countries. In places like Brazil and India the size of informal settlements are growing.
But even though the number of slum dwellers has increased, their standard of living has also increased. They now have access to basic services like safe electricity, running water and sanitation. The development
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After interviewing Nqobile Nqubane, who had moved from Ladysmith to Jika Joe in 1993, I learnt about the current socio-economic status in Jika Joe.

There are many methods I used to conduct primary research about Jika Joe. I used a questionnaire, an environmental appraisal sheet and a bi- polar evaluation and their use is detailed below. (Refer to appendix for the these resources)

The first challenge I faced was to try and think of a topic and a question which I would conduct research on Jika Joe about. After thinking long and hard I came to the conclusion that I would like to find out about the socio-economic issues in Jika Joe. Socio-economic factors include things like crime levels, government grants and basic services like water and electricity and plumbing and education levels.

After finding out what I would like to research, I came up with a questionnaire with all the questions I would like to ask the people of Jika Joe. (See the full questionnaire in the appendix). On the 27th of January, the grade 12 Geography class went on a trip to Jika Joe. Our community liaison was named Leonard. After walking for a while through the temporary accommodation for peoples whose houses have recently been burnt down while walking through the small corridors between houses, we came across a lady named Nqobile Nqubane who was willing to answer our questions. We then proceeded to ask her a number of questions about life in
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See results section for further information. While walking, we were slowly fazed out of the new area of Jika Joe and into the less developed area of Jika Joe. While walking through I slowly and carefully filled in my Environmental appraisal sheet and the Bi polar evaluation to give readers a better picture of what Jika Joe looks like and all its surroundings. These resources can be found in the appendix section of this

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