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
according to one source (Andrews, 2007). Such large minorities should
not be ignored or dismissed just because they are in the minority.