Ldquo;Two Worlds^|^rdquo; within Rural Community in South African Dual Economy

The homelands of South Africa were the African labour reserves created during the colonial and apartheid eras. The land tenure administration was one of the main tools for the white government to control labour mobilization and influx. As a result of successive interventions, the distorted forms of communal land tenure systems were institutionalized in rural African reserves, adding a stark tenurial duality to contemporary South African economic structures. On the other hand, the imposition of so-called ‘pseudo-egalitarianism’ on African societies, ignoring their inherently endogenous dynamism, rather facilitated social divisions within African societies.The theory of a dual economy in South African political science study has described African societies as homogeneous entities dependent on subsistent agriculture. On the other hand, a close historical investigation of land tenure institutions reveals the fact that rural societies have been divided into relatively educated individuals on one hand and conservative groups on the other hand, as if ‘two worlds’ in a dual economy. In this article, I try to present a new analytical framework to capture both institutional aspects of communal tenure and Africans' response to tenure administration, in order to understand rural communities in a dualistic South African economy. I also try to present a case study to apply the framework to analyzing current land use problems in my research area in Transkei from the perspective of ‘two worlds’ in a dual economy

Administration (probate law) · Agriculture · Colonialism · Dual economy · Dynamism · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Egalitarianism · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Land tenure · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Legal Issues in South Africa

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