Tsweletswele: problems and prospects for development in a peri-urban closer settlement in Ciskei

Bekker, S B; Fincham, Robert J; Manona, Cecil W; Whisson, Michael G

Title: Tsweletswele: problems and prospects for development in a peri-urban closer settlement in Ciskei
Title: Development Studies Working Paper, no. 13
Creator: Bekker, S B
Creator: Fincham, Robert J
Creator: Manona, Cecil W
Creator: Whisson, Michael G
Subject: Ciskei (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Ciskei (South Africa) -- Economic policy Tsweletswele (Ciskei, South Africa) Nutrition -- South Africa -- Ciskei Public health -- South Africa -- Ciskei Working class -- South Africa Africans -- Nutrition Agriculture -- South Africa -- Ciskei
Date Issued: 1983
Date: 1983
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2260
Identifier: vital:20270
Identifier: ISBN 0868100552
Description: In Ciskei, the development of urban housing and local authority structures has not been able to keep up with this immigration. As a result, a number of communities have sprung up in the tribal Authority areas close to this conurbation of some half a million people. These communities are neither urban nor rural, and comprise people with rural farmworker backgrounds who obtain their main source of income from employment in urban areas. In contradistinction to their true rural cousins, the breadwinners in these communities do not need to become migrants living and working far from home. Rather, they work during the week in an urban location close to home, and return on weekends to their families and children. This volume reports on one such community. The settlement of Tsweletswele is new, situated in a Tribal area, and within thirty kilometres of East London. Its residents who came from farms in the region work in East London. Their level of living is low, their access to state services minimal, and their tenure in the settlement uncertain. This report aims quite simply to establish what strategies these people choose to survive in their settlement. Subsequently, a set of recommendations are made which are aimed at improving the levels of living in the community, the delivery of essential services, and the tenure arrangements in the settlement
Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Format: 121 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: Development Studies Working Paper, no. 13
Rights: Rhodes University
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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