Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA (DVS)

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    Emergence from financial constraints through transformation to a research-led teaching and learning developmental university- University of the Western Cape 2000-2020
    (University of the Western Cape, 2023) Regal, Abduraghman; May, Julian
    The University of the Western Cape (UWC) was created by an Act of Parliament in 1959, the Extension of University Education Act of 1959 (Parliament RSA 1959), to serve as an institution of higher learning for the so-called coloured race to provide education and training in restricted fields and relative to occupations in the middle rather than the upper reaches of the racial stratification system (Wolpe, 1995).
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    Exploring the use of social networks in accessing housing: A focus on the back-yard dwellers of Hanover Park, Cape Town
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Rustin, Giselle; Karriem, Abdulrazak
    This study explored social capital and social networks within the affordable housing arena. Although Apartheid officially ended in 1994 with the first non-racial democratic elections, the current housing spatial planning is still along racially discriminatory lines with little change to the current housing typography experienced in South Africa. The housing market and development lends to discriminatory behaviour, by categorizing certain racial groups and steering these marginalised groups back to housing choices in social and economically deficient areas. This engineered selection process perpetuates racial and economic inequality. This study aims to explore why these groups of people, without any social capital or networks, struggle to access resources. This study also aims to show the correlation between ill-equipped housing and health outcomes.
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    South Africa’s land reform programme: A case study of the relocation of the Stockenström community to Friemersheim in the Western Cape during the apartheid era
    (University of the Western Cape, 2019) Seymour, Natalie N.; Pretorius, Leon
    This research places in context a proposed case study of land and property rights of a dispossessed Stockenström (Eastern Cape) community forcibly removed to Friemersheim (Western Cape) during the apartheid era, between 1985 and 1986. This dispossessed community has yet to receive appropriate compensation for that expropriation in the form of restoration of their property rights. This study examines the specifics of the legislative framework, which underpinned the circumstances of their land expropriation, as well as the pattern of land dispossession in South Africa during this era. To this end, it examines the impact of land-related apartheid legislation, which directly and indirectly influenced this community. It focuses on discussions, many of the parliamentary proclamations and statutes such as those passed in 1913, and beyond, which provided the legal context for large-scale land grabs, and contrasts these with the post-1994 land reformation programme. Finally, this research examines the practical implementation of the 1994 land reform programme, especially the component of restitution, with particular reference to the displaced Stockenström community who find themselves facing huge challenges in a democratic South Africa, even after they applied the new rights accorded to them in the land reform programme. It outlines the significance of the new legislative rights conferred on those dispossessed and tracks their land claims successes and failures.
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    The state and political struggle: strategies of repression and resistance in the greater Cape Town area from 1985 to 1989
    (University of Western Cape, 2000) Fullard, Madeleine; le Roux, Pieter
    In the period 1985 to 1989 both the state and the liberation movements sought to implement strategies of repression and resistance inside South Africa. These unfolded in the different regions of the country in unique ways. In the absence of detailed regional studies of the encounter between the two, this study examines the experience of Cape Town.
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    The state of land reform in Namibia
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Mabuku, Namakando Lorna; Bayat, Mohamed Saheed
    Thirty-one years post-independence, the wealth in Namibia is still unequal and racially segregated as the colonial period left it. Land distribution plays a vital factor in maintaining these racial lines as most land belongs to the minority of the Namibian population, white people. This significantly leaves the majority of the population left out. Land also plays a vital role in agriculture as some people’s livelihoods can benefit widely from agriculture.
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    Understanding white Privilege: Perspectives from South Africa’s Western Cape Province
    (University of the Western Cape, 2019) Cleophas, Edwin; Conradie, Ina
    It has been 25 years since the demise of apartheid and yet white dominance still persists. With many significant changes visible as a result of the fall of apartheid, the country sadly remains racially divided. The black majority still lives in poverty while the white minority continue to hold their position of privilege and power. And while black people are trying to change the status quo, most white people are ignoring their role in the past while continuing to perpetuate their White Privilege as the gap between black and white widens. Not addressing the issues of the past, maintains the unearned privileges white people have, while the black community grows even more frustrated as the year’s pass. With this in mind, this study explored a sample of “ordinary people” in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, and their experience and knowledge of the phenomenon known as “White Privilege”. The goal was to develop a conceptual framework for understanding the specifics on how White Privilege functions and operates within the Western Cape and its impact on those who are excluded from perks related to White Privilege. This study confirmed the existence of White Privilege in the Western Cape. The impact of White Privilege on people of colour, and society at large, is where a small group of the research participants had different views. Some linked White Privilege directly to the continued oppression of people of colour, and the unfair position of privilege that white people occupy in society. Others viewed this Privilege as an unintended occurrence, which they should not be held accountable for. The critical point that all participants agreed on was that White Privilege in the Western Cape is a problem, and something that needs attention A.S.A.P.