District Six and Human Relations Area File Layer.

    First off, it took me some time to actually locate the "Human Relations Area File Layer." The first specific layer that I applied was the "Prevailing Type of Dwelling: Shape of Roof," which proved to be almost completely useless as most of South Africa and all of the Cape region was classified as "semi hemisphere" housing, thus providing little variation for comparison. However, what this does tell us is that the type of native housing throughout South Africa would have been relatively consistent, which would mean that there would be a degree of similarity in the effect of houses on the landscape, at least from an aesthetic point of view and I would imagine from an environmental perspective.

    Furthermore, when the "Settlements Pattern" layer was applied to the map, South Africa once again was completely covered by the same colour - indicating that the whole country was "Nomad or fully migratory." It is worth noting at this point that this information is without a doubt outdated for the most part because it ignores the effects of modernisation. However, this map does allow us to examine how historically the land would never have been permanently settled on.  This is consistent with the "Subsistence Economy" layer, which once again shows that all of South Africa was essentially an area where "Gathering contributes most." This is exactly what one would expect from an area in which the population was migratory and nomadic, as they would gather their food supply from the land and moving according to the seasons. As already stated, the effect of this would be that there was very little if any permanent settlement before the era of colonisation and 'modernisation.'