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| Title: | 'We are Only Here for the Pension, Tonight We Will Go Back to Mozambique': State Welfare and Development Projects in Communities That Transcend Borders |
| Author: | Kloppers, Roelie |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Africanus |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 154-165 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | Mozambicans social services social security boundaries Development and Technology Economics and Trade Urbanization and Migration Inter-African Relations |
| Abstract: | An understanding of the nature of geopolitical borderlands is vital for the planning and successful implementation of welfare and development projects in border regions. This article focuses on the southern Mozambique-South Africa border region, where Mozambicans routinely cross the border to benefit from the social welfare and local development programmes of the South African State. Historically, people in the region made a living as traders and in the mining industry, but a household survey conducted in 2001 and 2002 in nine wards in northern KwaZulu-Natal revealed that today as many as 83 percent of households receive at least one form of social grant. The pressure Mozambicans exert on South African State welfare and development projects impedes the ability of State agencies to achieve their socioeconomic targets. What is needed is not the enforcement of political boundaries, but a re-evaluation of socioeconomic growth and development targets in the border regions of northern KwaZulu-Natal. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
