In Ciskei, the development of urban housing and local authority structures has not been able to keep up with this immigration. As a result, a number of communities have sprung up in the tribal Authority areas close to this conurbation of some half a million people. These communities are neither urban nor rural, and comprise people with rural farmworker backgrounds who obtain their main source of income from employment in urban areas. In contradistinction to their true rural cousins, the breadwinners in these communities do not need to become migrants living and working far from home. Rather, they work during the week in an urban location close to home, and return on weekends to their families and children. This volume reports on one such community. The settlement of Tsweletswele is new, situated in a Tribal area, and within thirty kilometres of East London. Its residents who came from farms in the region work in East London. Their level of living is low, their access to state services minimal, and their tenure in the settlement uncertain. This report aims quite simply to establish what strategies these people choose to survive in their settlement. Subsequently, a set of recommendations are made which are aimed at improving the levels of living in the community, the delivery of essential services, and the tenure arrangements in the settlement / 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:20270 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Bekker, S B, Fincham, Robert John, Manona, C W, Whisson, Michael G |
| Publisher | Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Text |
| Format | 121 pages, pdf |
| Rights | Rhodes University, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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