Abstract
Geographic Information Systems are playing an important role in the restructuring of the state and in the broader process of reconstruction and development in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper focuses on the role of the technology in the transformation of Johannesburg's local government boundaries. Drawing parallels between Ferguson's ‘anti-politics machine’ in Lesotho, we argue that GIS ushered in, albeit temporarily, a new discourse of rational planning and technocratic decision making. We also explore the way in which GIS presented a particular view of the city. With the intervention of local government politicians, however, the maps produced by GIS and the entire demarcation process was exposed as a profoundly political act.
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