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Title:Resettlement into the Whittlesea District of the Former Ciskei
Authors:De Wet, ChrisISNI
Lujabe, Phumeza
Metele, Nosipho
Year:1997
Periodical:South African Journal of Ethnology
Volume:20
Issue:3
Period:September
Pages:133-145
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
Ciskei
Subjects:segregation
resettlement
Politics and Government
Ethnic and Race Relations
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:From the early 1960s onwards, the development of the 'grand apartheid' phase of the Nationalist Party's segregationist policy, together with developments in the agricultural sector of the South African economy, led to the resettlement of several million South Africans - primarily black and coloured people. This article is concerned with the movement of black South Africans from towns in the Western and Eastern Cape, and from farms in the Eastern Cape, to the district of Wittlesea in what was, until recently, the Ciskei homeland. In particular, the authors consider the movement to two resettlement areas, i.e. Sada and Dongwe, where research was conducted in 1994. As for Sada, which was established in 1963, the article compares data from research conducted by the Surplus People Project (SPP) in 1981 with the results of the 1994 research. As for Dongwe, where people started moving into in December 1983, the 1994 data are compared with those of Sada. The comparisons concerned, amongst others, household size, employment, the cultivation of gardens, cash income, diet, housing and schools. The most significant difference between Sada and Dongwe is that, whereas in Sada most people only moved once, most people in Dongwe moved up to four times (to Ilinge, Sada, Oxton and Dongwe). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and Afrikaans.
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