Environmental apartheid: Eco-health and rural marginalization in South Africa

Stull, Valerie J.; Bell, Michael; Ncwadi, M.R.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.04.004

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“…Karriem and Hoskins (2016) stress that post-apartheid South Africa has high poverty levels, and huge inequalities, caused by apartheid policies which limited participation in the labour market and stifled business creation. These apartheid laws served to keep Blacks powerless and willing to work for Whites for very little (Stull, Bell and Ncwadi, 2016). Apartheid policies created job-seeking skills rather than job creation skills; this proved that black people served as labourers during the apartheid era.…”

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“…Ncwadi (2016) state that the colonial and apartheid governments forced many Africans into hilly, rocky areas with no fertile land for agricultural production and further recognized that throughout the second half of the twentieth century, land in these areas became increasingly scarcer, making it almost impossible for residents to engage in agricultural production Stull, Bell and Ncwadi (2016). stress that in the 21st century, farming is very difficult due to limited plot size and decreased quality of soils and food production in rural areas has fallen severely.…”

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The implementation and sustainability of pro‐poor local economic development initiatives in King Cetshwayo District municipality

Jili

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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 I would also like to thank all the people who played a role in encouraging me to further my studies, particularly my family as they have been a source of strength, especially my mother, Caroline Jili and my brother, Mfanofikile Jili. I thank them for their support and their love that they have showed me. Moreover, my deepest appreciation also goes to Dr Mfundo Mandla Masuku for consistently encouraging me to finish my PhD and also for supporting me academically and personally. His role in my life has added a positive value. I would also like to thank the King Cetshwayo community, particularly the uMhlathuze and Umfolozi participants for their valuable input in ensuring that I was able to collect the relevant data. May our father God bless all of you. Lastly to God be the glory for giving me strength to pursue my studies up to this level, I believe that everything is possible through Him.

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The implementation and sustainability of pro‐poor local economic development initiatives in King Cetshwayo District municipality

Jili

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Although ploughing and dumping waste are clearly detrimental to wetland integrity, historical grazing by wild ungulates, contemporary grazing by livestock and natural burning regimes can be important drivers of wetland functioning [25,26]. However, lack of rotational grazing and inadequate fire management in the region has led to chronic degradation of the wider landscape [27,28]. Because respondents may have been biased in their estimation of their damage to wetlands, we only asked four questions related to damage-causing activities, but duplicated these to quantify the respondents' own experience as well as their perceived experiences of others in their community (giving a total of eight questions).…”

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Ecosystem services and ecological degradation of communal wetlands in a South African biodiversity hotspot

Pantshwa

Buschke

2019

R. Soc. open sci.

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Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full environmental costs of their actions. Although it is possible to manage communal resources sustainably, this depends on the dynamics of the socio-ecological system. In this study, we used a structured questionnaire to examine whether demographic characteristics of a rural community and the propensity for partaking in damage-causing activities affected the benefits obtained from the wetlands. Responses from 50 households in the rural Hlabathi administrative area within the Maputo-Albany-Pondoland Biodiversity Hotspot, South Africa, indicated that the entire community obtains some benefits from wetlands; most notably regulating ecosystem services. However, males were more likely to benefit from wetlands, which highlights a potential power imbalance. Respondents were more likely to blame others for wetland degradation, although there was no link between the damage-causing activities and benefits from wetlands. The high dependence on ecosystem services by community members, when combined with gender-based power imbalances and the propensity to blame others, could jeopardize the sustainable use of communal wetlands. Therefore, we describe how strong leadership could nurture a sustainable social–ecological system by integrating ecological information and social empowerment into a multi-level governance system.

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“…South African higher education will become an agency of progress if its short-term goal of self-improvement can be made compatible with long-term experimental but resolute policy of changing the social order (see, for instance, Stull, Bell, & Ncwadi, 2016). Student histories can be the exciting learning material for a critical dialogue.…”

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(De)constructing the #FeesMustFall Campaign in South African Higher Education

CMoloi

Makgoba²,

Miruka

2017

Contemporary Education Dialogue

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South Africans live in one of the most unequal societies in the world where squalor and abject poverty live side by side with abundant wealth. The challenge of inequality is captured eloquently in the National Development Plan (NDP), the government’s roadmap of South African economic future. It has become obvious that the new generation of student leadership in South Africa has unleashed a unique opportunity to overhaul and transform the higher education system fundamentally. They are tired of the current system that hangs on the pillars of racism and white supremacy and continues to reproduce inequality in the society. In some ways, the South African higher education system continues to humiliate and take away students’ dignity. Thus, there is still work to be done to ensure the higher education system fully conforms with the objectives of the NDP.

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Environmental apartheid: Eco-health and rural marginalization in South Africa

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

The implementation and sustainability of pro‐poor local economic development initiatives in King Cetshwayo District municipality

The implementation and sustainability of pro‐poor local economic development initiatives in King Cetshwayo District municipality

Ecosystem services and ecological degradation of communal wetlands in a South African biodiversity hotspot

(De)constructing the #FeesMustFall Campaign in South African Higher Education

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