Land demand and rural struggles in Xhalanga, Eastern Cape: who wants land and for what?

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2005

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University of the Western Cape

Abstract

The study explored and investigated demand and struggles for land in the communal areas of South Africa with particular reference to Luphaphasi in the former Xhalanga magisterial district, in the Eastern Cape. The study argued that despite arguments about proletarianisation and conversion of rural land users into wage laborers, leading to assumptions that there was less interest in land use by rural people, there is and has always been demand and struggles for land in communal areas such as Xhalanga.

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Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)

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Land tenure, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Xhalanga, Land use

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