| Summary: | A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, November 2015. === Globally, people are connected to multiple homes. This connection develops through
ownership and place attachment. Second home tourism research explores the
ownership and place attachment to multiple homes for the purpose of leisure. Whilst
second home tourism research has been conducted extensively in the Global North,
focusing mainly on leisure, the same cannot be said for the Global South. In South
Africa, there is little research conducted on the local wealthy black population and
the connection to ownership and place attachment to additional/second homes. The
history of racial, socio-economic and spatial segregation in South Africa has
facilitated the unique development of the connection to multiple homes for the black
populations. Using the current second home tourism literature, together with the
legislative history of South Africa, this research hopes to develop open and inclusive
explanations of the second home phenomenon for the case of the influential black
elite residents in South Africa. This dissertation explores the link that sixty-nine black
elite residents of greater Johannesburg suburbs have with their additional homes
that are located in Soweto and other regions in sub-Saharan Africa. To achieve this,
a largely qualitative methodology set was implemented through the use of in-depth
semi-structured interviews and thematic content analysis was utilised for the
analysis. To conclude, the results of this dissertation dispute certain aspects of
concepts used in current second home literature. It is also emphasized that it is
important to rethink and re-conceptualize the international ideas of circulation,
mobility and pluri-residentiality, when attempting to appropriately adapt these
concepts South Africa.
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