22 June 2006

By Richard Tomlinson

An international development agency recently commissioned Cubes (Centre for Urban and Built Environment Studies) at the University of the Witwatersrand to undertake a study on the effects of HIV/AIDS on municipal management and the delivery of housing and services, according to Business Day.

The study included preparing HIV-prevalence and demographic projections. UN-Habitat released the projections before the completion of the project because of the interest they were generating. Some of the projections have since been used for planning, published and located on the web.

The source of the projections was not identified. Probably the most striking of the projections is that the populations of Gauteng and Johannesburg are expected to stop growing and, by 2015, to be declining.

 

Source: Business Day