Tarring the road to Mecca: Dilemmas of infrastructural development in a small Karoo town

Small Town Geographies in Africa: Experiences from South Africa and Elsewhere

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 209-222

  Ingle, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

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