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Title: | Antinomies of Access: Social Differentiation and Communal Tenure in a Namaqualand Reserve, South Africa |
Author: | Hendricks, Fred T. |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 55-85 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Southern Africa |
Subjects: | social structure customary law land law communal lands Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Labor and Employment History and Exploration sociology Commons land tenure Namaqualand (South Africa) history |
Abstract: | Situated in the remote northwestern corner of South Africa, the Richtersveld reserve is in the larger region of Namaqualand. The author traces the manner in which colonial penetration undermined and distorted the land tenure system in the region, compares the experience of the coloured reserves with that of the larger bantustans, demonstrates the failure of State interventionist attempts in the early 1980s at individualization of the communal grazing areas through the policy of economic farming units and questions the viability of the present distorted communal system in a context of extreme social differentiation. Finally, he examines the disintegration of local grazing regulation to a free access situation and the long-term environmental and social impact. The article moves from a historical and comparative perspective of reserve policies in South Africa as a whole to the local conditions in one village of the Richtersveld reserve, Lekkersing, and finally to the experiences of one stock farmer in Lekkersing, Joseph Cloete. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |