The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. / Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:20293 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Manona, Cecil W, Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995 |
| Publisher | Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Manuscript, Text |
| Format | 35 pages, pdf |
| Rights | Rhodes University, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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