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The collapse of the 'tribal authority' system and the rise of civic organisations / ISER seminar series, 1995

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)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:20293
Date January 1995
CreatorsManona, Cecil W, Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
PublisherRhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeManuscript, Text
Format35 pages, pdf
RightsRhodes University, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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