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Article: Access to Land - Women's Struggle in South Africa's Former Bantustans.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Black women constitute the poorest socioeconomic sector of South Africa's population. Most are unemployed and live in impoverished rural areas. In fact, rural women are disadvantaged even when compared with men of the same race and class. In particular this is true with regard to rights and access to land and to the control women are able to exercise over it.
Land is a productive resource and means of survival. Although women make up the majority of the rural population, they manage only a small proportion of rural land. They face major obstacles with respect to legitimate access to this resource, and any access they have is insecure. Women also have fewer ...