For many social change activists, the compelling questions are becoming
less about the nature and effects of the inherited divisions
themselves, and more about the changing nature of rural-urban
crossings, linkages, connections, exchanges and ‘entanglements’. This
is clear perhaps most especially with respect to South Africa, which
has a majority urban/ peri-urban population and where much thought
consequently is being put into this issue. But even in South Africa, an
estimated 45 percent of the population remains to be purely rural.