This was a great mission which allowed me to gather more information about what people thought about Urban Resilience in my area (Rondebosch, Cape Town). I went about talking to the people in my community, and asking them what they thought of things like Cape Towns adaptive capacity, and what they knew of Cape Town's resilience setup.
About 90% of them thought that Cape Town had very minimal adaptive capacity. They often refered to how poorly our Xenophobic violence (
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/xenophobia-and-illegal) was handled. They felt that Cape Town had been ambushed by a situation and that the support system to tackle it wasn't ever in place. Most of the people I interviewed also had no idea of any Urban Resilience plans that Cape Town had imlemented.
I feel Cape Town is moving in the right direction. The xenophobic violence was definitely a wake-up call.
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