Can land reform terminate injustice in South Africa? A reply to Derman and Fay

Kepe, Thembela; Lewison, Elsie; Ramasra, Renata; Butt, Sadia

doi:10.1080/08039410.2011.615486

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“…Where claims are still to be settled, the IWPA remain the overall managers on behalf of the state (IWPA, 2008). We follow many authors in acknowledging that the relationship between land reform/rights and that conservation is a complicated one (Fay, 2010;Kepe, Lewison, Ramasra, & Butt, 2011;Nustad, 2011;Sundnes, 2013).…”

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The Best Laid Plans

Hansen

Faran

Byrne

2015

The Journal of Environment & Development

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The article documents the case of South Africa’s struggle to reconcile racially based poverty, a legacy of apartheid, and attempts to conserve the country’s unique and important biodiversity. We present an analysis of KwaDapha, a small village in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal, a protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in terms of the capability approach. Despite South Africa’s strong human rights orientation, we show that the freedom, or agency, of local users and inhabitants to achieve doings and beings according to their own values and norms, is constrained by state-led conservation management at KwaDapha. We suggest that the intellectual cause of this failure might lie in the conflation of two distinct concepts: human rights and the capability approach, in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park’s predominantly market-based operationalization of sustainable development.

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confidence: 99%