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Title:Tradition, social justice and land reform in Central Botswana
Author:Hitchcock, Robert K.ISNI
Year:1980
Periodical:Journal of African Law
Volume:24
Issue:1
Pages:1-34
Language:English
Geographic term:Botswana
Subjects:Ngwato
land reform
Abstract:Botswana's independence did bring with it the possibility of planning new, commercial forms of land management such as leased ranches, and thus the possibility of regarding incorporated people as 'squatters' to be displaced for the sake of large-scale commercialisation. At the very heart of this transformation is Botswana's Central District, within which the largest proposed commercial area, the micro-region of the Western Sandveld, has a special importance for the chiefly family of Botswana's first President, since it was his grandfather's personal hunting ground. Given the economic and political centrality of this district and its dominant Ngwato tribe, the author focuses his discussion on it, while he attempts to relate his observations within it, especially of two separate micro-regions (the Wester Sandveld and the Nata River) to a wider, national context. Sections: Introduction - Basic rights and productive zones - Political expansion and stratification - The modification of tribal land tenure - The development of private interests in water resources - National policy and change in the Central District - The goals and unintended effects of agrarian reform - The social implications of the Tribal Grazing Land policy - Conclusion. Map, ref., tab.
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