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This paper argues that urban South Africans endure fear of crime irrespective of race, class or spatial residence, however responses to fear differ according to socio-spatial identity. As citizens protect themselves from crime via urban-form, their differing strategies serve only to undermine government planning and deepen existing socio-spatial segregation. The paper seeks to analyse residential urban-forms of citizen housing adjustments, and state urban planning. The focus is principally on the former, in undermining the latter and prohibiting post-apartheid visions of a non-racial spatial order. The creation of these urban-forms is governed not just by crime, but fear of crime, leading to increased socio-spatial segregation and a ‘New Apartheid’.