Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa
#0183;#32;Our case study covered five municipalities in South Africa: Gamagara, GaSegonyana, Lephalale, Matjhabeng and Rustenburg (see Fig. 1).We selected these to represent the main mining subsectors in South Africa iron ore, manganese, coal, gold and platinum, respectively and to illustrate periods of decline, stagnation and growth.