THE VALLEY THE VALLEY TTRRAANNSSFFOORRMMAATTIIOONN RR EESSEEAARRCCHH PPRROOJJEECCTT Research done by: The Unit for Religion and Development Research, University of Stellenbosch in partnership with Transformation Africa TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................... 3 2 MOTIVATION AND PURPOSE.............................................................................................. 4 3 PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY......................................................................................... 7 3.1 Consultation with fraternal ................................................................................................7 3.2 Day of planning.................................................................................................................8 3.3 Launch ..............................................................................................................................8 3.4 Research............................................................................................................................8 3.4.1 GPS phase .................................................................................................................8 3.4.2 Needs analysis...........................................................................................................8 3.5 Processing of the data ........................................................................................................9 3.6 Feedback......................................................................................................................... 10 3.7 Website ........................................................................................................................... 10 4 RESULTS............................................................................................................................... 10 4.1 Demographics of the Valley ............................................................................................ 10 4.1.1 Average age of residents.......................................................................................... 12 Average income per household................................................................................................ 13 4.1.2 Education: No schooling for adults 20 years and older ............................................. 14 4.1.3 Housing: Informal dwellings.................................................................................... 15 4.1.4 Unemployment ........................................................................................................ 16 4.1.5 Christian affiliation.................................................................................................. 17 4.2 GPS phase....................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.1 Places of worship..................................................................................................... 18 4.2.2 Liquor outlets .......................................................................................................... 20 4.2.3 Places of sexual misconduct..................................................................................... 23 4.2.4 Selling of illegal drugs............................................................................................. 24 4.3 Needs analysis................................................................................................................. 25 4.3.1 Ocean View............................................................................................................. 25 4.4 Secondary data ................................................................................................................ 38 4.4.1 Census data.............................................................................................................. 38 4.4.2 Health data............................................................................................................... 38 4.4.2.1 People who died as a result of assault................................................................... 39 4.4.2.2 The number of HIV/Aids-related deaths............................................................... 40 4.4.3 Crime data: SAPS.................................................................................................... 41 4.4.3.1 Violent crimes/assault.......................................................................................... 41 Copyright URDR, Stellenbosch University 1 4.4.3.2 Sexual crimes/rape............................................................................................... 42 5 DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION................................................................................ 42 6 CONCLUSIONS..................................................................................................................... 42 7 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................... 46 8 ANNEXURES ........................................................................................................................ 47 8.1 Annexure 1: Variants available from research project ...................................................... 47 8.2 Annexure 2: Demographic Profile of The Valley using Census 1996 and 2001................ 49 Copyright URDR, Stellenbosch University 2 1 PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Transformation Africa, coordinator of the annual Day of Prayer throughout the African Continent, formed a partnership with the Unit for Religion and Development Research (Faculty of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch) to facilitate the Transformation Research Project in the greater Cape Town area. The scope of the project is the Cape Peninsula, from Atlantis to Gordon’s Bay to the west. The first phase of the research project was the pilot project and was done in the Helderberg Basin. The second phase encompasses the duplication of the pilot research process in the rest of the Cape Peninsula. The Peninsula was divided into 22 units of approximately 150,000 people each. The Valley is one of these units of 150,000 people. However, the Valley initially formed part of a bigger research area which also included Hout Bay. For practical reasons, The Valley was done alone. The report consists of three parts. First, the process of research and the different instruments for the data collection are described. This is followed by an overview of the results of both the primary and secondary research. Lastly, the concluding remarks deal especially with the role of churches in The Valley. Firstly, we would like to thank everybody who contributed to the successful completion of this project. Specifically we would like to thank the following people: The steering committee of the fraternal; Everybody in whatever capacity who helped and prayed; The coordinator of the research in The Valley, Lance MacIntosh; The 20+ fieldworkers who diligently mapped their communities; The sponsors: individuals and Transformation Africa, who made this possible financially. Secondly, we would like to acknowledge the databases received from the following institutions: StatsSA for the demographic data; City Health Directorate, City of Cape Town for the database on the causes of death; Strategic Information Department, City of Cape Town for the GIS data; South African Police Service (SAPS) for the data on the occurrence of crime and violence. Dr Johannes Erasmus Mr Gerbrand Mans [email protected] (021) 808-3577 (office) (021) 808-3251 (fax) Copyright URDR, Stellenbosch University 3 2 MOTIVATION AND PURPOSE Established within the Faculty of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001, the Unit for Religion and Development Research (URDR) has embarked on a major initiative to research the social development needs of local communities and to empower the faith-based organisations (FBOs) in those communities to enable them to play an active and effective role in alleviating poverty and meeting the needs of the people. Hence, at the end of 2003 the Unit was contracted by Transformation Africa to facilitate a research process in the Cape Peninsula. The work of the Unit is based on the following assumptions and facts: Firstly, the Unit proceeds from the understanding that the solution to the majority of problems related to poverty in South Africa lies in carrying out two steps. The first is that one needs to gather data on the problem, and the problem must have a human face. The second step is networking, empowering and motivating all parties concerned in a society to address the problem. This problem can be solved only with strong input from grassroots level, where local communities are part and parcel of a process of participatory action research. In this process the Unit wants to assist and participate by making faith-based organisations (FBOs) aware of events in their constituencies and giving them access to reliable, user-friendly information necessary for the evaluation and/or planning of their ministries in their communities. Secondly, whilst the Unit recognises the need for stronger community networks, it maintains that the potential of the religious sector in South Africa, through its various FBOs, can play a major role in this regard. In South Africa the Christian churches can rightly claim to be the country’s strongest and most widespread non-governmental organisation (NGO), reaching on