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| Title: | The State, Landlords, and the Squatter Problem in Post-Colonial Swaziland |
| Author: | Simelane, Hamilton S. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 329-354 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Swaziland - Eswatini |
| Subjects: | squatters land reform land law Politics and Government Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4107208 |
| Abstract: | The Swazi colonial State demonstrated sensitivity and sympathy toward squatters during the last thirty years of colonial rule. After independence, the land struggle in Swaziland became a class issue. The postcolonial State has failed to perpetuate the land restoration process begun under colonialism. Instead, it has precipitated a repetition of the land accumulation process that took place during the first years of colonial rule, with the middle class replacing the colonial settler class as a land-accumulating class. With the ascendancy of the indigenous leadership, the land question in Swaziland has been affected by an escalation of corruption on the part of government officials and individuals who have taken advantage of the absence of a progressive land policy. Squatter eviction in the postcolonial period far surpasses that of the colonial period, and squatter resistance against landlords is prevalent. Independence in Swaziland has intensified rather than eliminated the squatter problem. Bibliogr., ref., sum. in French. |
