- Title
- An Investigation into the community's experience of the land claim process: the case study of Cwengcwe village in King Williams Town, Eastern Cape
- Creator
- Mgweba, Unati Natashe
- Subject
- Land reform -- South Africa
- Subject
- Restitution
- Subject
- Black people -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26808
- Identifier
- vital:66011
- Description
- This study examines Cwengcwe community’s experiences of the land claim process. This community is located in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape. The land issue remains unfinished business in the South African context with many land claimants still waiting to receive their land back or to be compensated for their land with money. Cwengcwe community members are not an exception in the channel of claiming back their land and having to wait for a lengthy period of time to be compensated. The main objective of the study was therefore to find out about the experiences of the Cwengcwe community with regards to the land claims process. The study adopted a qualitative research approach and the data was collected by conducting semi-structured interviews and observations. Purposive sampling was used to collect data from community members at Cwengcwe village. The findings of the study reveal that the community members in this village are very disappointed at the slow progress of processing the land claims, as their claims which were lodged in 2015 had not been settled as yet in November 2017. Furthermore, the minimal and/or lack of communication from the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform was a negative indicator in the prioritisation ladder. This study recommends further exploration of the land claim process in order to review its model and come up with alternative processes that might ease the land claim process.
- Description
- Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (vii, 75 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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