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Uneven distribution of cultural facilities in the City of Tshwane, South Africa: a call for a cultural turn in spatial planning

Abstract This paper examines the distribution of cultural facilities in the City of Tshwane, post-1994 democratic dispensation. The spread of these amenities by the municipality throughout its jurisdiction since its inception has been uneven; tilting towards the urban formerly white towns and cities as opposed to black townships and rural areas as part of its mandate to reverse the legacy of colonial and apartheid spatial planning. Through qualitative research, the paper explains this unevenness and argues that the absence of cultural planning devices to inform and guide equitable as well as equal distribution of resources only serves to perpetuate the status quo. It thus proposes a cultural turn in spatial planning in South Africa in general and Tshwane in particular to offset obvious historic disproportionate geographical contours.