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| Title: | Resettlement and Land Reform in South Africa |
| Author: | De Wet, Chris |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 61 |
| Pages: | 359-373 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | segregation land reform Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249408704065 |
| Abstract: | Since 1913, at least seven million South Africans, mainly Africans, have been uprooted or actively resettled for predominantly political purposes. This article provides a brief overview of the extent and the consequences of several kinds of resettlement. Betterment Planning (or 'Rehabilitation') has given rise to the numerically largest and most widespread form of resettlement in South Africa. Rooted in the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936, it refers to attempts by successive governments to combat erosion, conserve the environment and improve agricultural production in the homeland areas. The article deals with Betterment Planning in the Ciskei village of Chatha, 'black spots' (African rural settlements on land in 'white South Africa'; these people were usually moved to the homelands) and 'Trust areas' (land allocated to Africans in terms of the 1936 Act) in the Transvaal, resettlement in Qwaqwa, the official homeland for South Sotho speakers, and the case of a dispossessed community in the Tsitsikama region. The author argues that land reform in a postapartheid South Africa will require further resettlement, and he considers a number of possible settlement patterns, as well as some of the problems likely to arise. Bibliogr., sum. |
