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Tarring the road to Mecca



Abstract

Ingle, Mark (2012), “Tarring the road to Mecca: Dilemmas of infrastructural development in a small Karoo town”, in R Donaldson and L Marais (eds), Small Town Geographies in Africa: Experiences from South Africa and Elsewhere, Nova Press.

 

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(Author contact: vdpost2002@yahoo.com)

 



Posted in Dr Mark Ingle, Economic Studies and tagged Camdeboo, Eastern Cape, Infrastructure, Nieu-Bethesda, Tourism, Transport

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