Informal Settlement Characteristics in a Rural Land Restitution Case: Elandskloof, South Africa

Michael Barry and David Mayson

Sociological Research Online, 2000, vol. 5, issue 2, 95-103

Abstract: Research in informal settlements in South Africa has shown that conflict is inherent between groups within a settlement and between the broader community and the land administration authorities. In general, groups and sub-groups continually form, reform and dissolve within informal settlements. Moreover, the internal rules that a community creates relating to land tenure tend to be manipulated by sub-groups as they compete for land, resources and power. Internal rules are not static but are subject to continual change. Similar characteristics were observed in Elandskloof, a rural land restitution case in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Date: 2000
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