Abstract
M.A.
- Title
- The final resettlement of the Bakwena Ba Ga Molopyane at Tsetse
- Creators - without role
- Davis Yumba
- Awarding Institution
- University of Johannesburg; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of Johannesburg
- Identifiers
- 9913527207691
- Copyright
- The problem on which the study focuses is how the Bakwena Ba Ga Molopyane were affected by resettlement. It also. focuses on the reasons for the removal of the Bakwena from Uitkyk in 1931 and Doornkop in 1978; Attention is paid to the economic position of the tribe at the two farms. The study concentrates on the question of compensatory land, negative effects on the ability of the tribe as farmers, lack of employment opportunities, loss of livelihood and the state of despondency as a result of resettlement. Intensive primary research was conducted. Interviews were conducted in Tsetse in May 1995. The same number and type of prepared questions which required short and long answers were to be answered by the interviewees. A commercial white farmer in Ventersdorp as well as the chairperson of the Ventersdorp district agricultural union were also interviewed about the economic activities of the tribe in 1996. Secondary research was conducted by going through published secondary sources in the Rand Afrikaans University library and the Human Science Research Council library in Pretoria. The State Archives in Pretoria were visited to conduct primary archival research. The official documents consulted were those of the Department of Bantu Administration and Native Affairs Department. Matters concerning the buying and selling of land by blacks were handled by these departments. The State Ethnologist was visited to establish the link between the information gathered and the movement of the tribe. The Deeds Office in Pretoria was visited to consult registers regarding the transfer of land between the tribe and interested parties. There was a need to establish how, by whom and in whose name the land was owned. The North West Provincial Government was visited to • confirm information $61 the movement of the tribe, from Doornkop to Tsetse and com -pensation for land they relinquished at Doornkop. Primary research documents were consulted in the Office of Traditional Affairs. The Deeds Office in Mmabatho was also visited to establish in whose name the farms, Fairview and Ramatlabarnal portion 27, were registered. The study has established that by October 1996 compensatory land, the farm Fairview and portion 27 of Ramatlabama, had not been transferred and registered in the name of the tribe. Secondly, private owners who had been promised portion 1 of Fairview in exchange of portion 1(c) No. 186 of the farm Doornkop and portion 5 (of 3) of the farm Doornkop in the Ventersdorp district had also not been compensated. One of the results of resettlement was that the tribe was resettled in a dry area with insufficient rain. . The soil in Tsetse is also not good for crop production. As a result the tribe's ability to farm has been negatively affected. It has also been established that the tribe has been resettled in an area which lacks employment opportunities. The tribe itself could not create employment opportunities as there were no enterprising farmers left among them due to insufficient rain and the poor condition of the soil. Business is not good as the majority of the people are poor. Statistics supplied by the Development Bank of Southern Africa indicate that in 1990 most of the people in Bophuthatswana were economically inactive due to lack of employment opportunities. Consequently, the tribe's means of making a living have diminished. One of the most important results obtained is that resettlement has made the tribe to lose hope in life and in their ability to be creative. Resettlement has made the people to live in despair and poverty.
- Academic Unit
- University of Johannesburg; Department of History
- Resource Type
- Thesis