Chiefs, civil servants and the city council:
            <i>State–society relations in evolving land delivery processes in Maseru, Lesotho</i>

Leduka, Resetselemang Clement

doi:10.3828/idpr.28.2.4

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“…Suburbs and the peri-urban fringe are where the juxtapositions, conflicts, and compromises of legal pluralism are most apparent. Many of the best-documented examples of pluralistic informality have been situated here (e.g., Friedmann 2011; Gough and Yankson 2006; Kasanga, Cochrane, and Roth 1996; Keyder 2000; Leaf 2002, 2009, 2011; Leduka 2006; Razzaz 1994; Simon 1992, 114; 2008, 171). Around Accra, for example, much land is still nominally held by the community and controlled by the chiefs of indigenous estates, but a market has emerged to allow outsiders to buy in (Gough 1999, 400).…”

Section: The Peculiarly Urban and Suburban Character Of Informalitymentioning

confidence: 89%

Modes of Informal Urban Development

Harris

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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The concept of informality has often been misunderstood. Its, especially, urban character is rarely appreciated. With respect to urban development, it was once thought to distinguish the Global South, a view that is changing, but an alternative has not been systematically articulated. Based on an extensive survey of literatures, this article clarifies the urban character of informality, articulates its global relevance, and proposes a framework for understanding its major modes: latent, diffuse, embedded, overt, and dominant. Their relative frequency distinguishes cities, regions, and nations while their identification facilitates the comparison of places.

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Section: The Peculiarly Urban and Suburban Character Of Informalitymentioning

confidence: 89%

Modes of Informal Urban Development

Harris

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…These studies are unevenly spread geographically, with a particularly strong focus on chiefs in Ghana (see Ubink, 2008a;Yeboah and Obeng-Odoom, 2010;Yeboah and Shaw, 2013;Boamah, 2014;Fuseini and Kemp, 2015;Cobbinah and Aboagye, 2017;Siiba et al, 2018;Tieleman and Uitermark, 2019 and others). Other case studies have documented the role of customary practices in the delivery of large amounts of urban land in Botswana, Lesotho, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda (Leduka, 2006;Rakodi, 2006;Nkurunziza, 2007). A recent study by Lazaro et al, (2019) has also addressed the process of establishing formal governance systems in emerging urban centres based on the case of Tanzania.…”

Section: Rural Governance Transformationmentioning

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Towards a comparative research agenda on in situ urbanisation and rural governance transformation

Brown

2021

International Development Planning Review

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This article explores how rural settlements urbanise, and how rural governance transforms in the process. The question is motivated by the significant contribution that smaller urban centres are projected to make to the world’s future urban growth, the majority of which will occur in the global South. Many smaller centres are emerging through in situ urbanisation, wherein a rural settlement becomes urban. Given the importance of small town growth, the article proposes a comparative research agenda with the aim of exploring and comparing the institutional transformations occurring in ‘transitional spaces’, the governance complexities these transformations present and the consequences for establishing urban planning systems in historically rural settlements. The agenda is operationalised in sub-Saharan Africa through a case study of Karonga Town, an emerging urban centre in Malawi. The agenda draws on a varied body of case-study research on small town growth and rural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa generally and Malawi specifically. The agenda has the potential to make a significant contribution to the literature seeking to reveal the informality in different governance landscapes and the forms of urbanisation in which these landscapes are embedded in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

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“…The role played by chieftainship is another unresolved question of local governance in Lesotho. Despite consistent weakening of chieftainship since colonial times, the institution seems to be resilient and remains tenacious in local governance of the country (Leduka 2006 However, the integrative method has the tendency of sweeping under the carpet a substantive question about the institution of chieftainship. As seen above, chiefs are nominally members of local councils, but without specified functions.…”

Section: The Role Of Chieftainship Under the Billmentioning

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A critique of the newly proposed model of decentralisation in Lesotho

ʼNyane

2020

CJLG

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The Government of Lesotho has drafted the Local Government Bill 2016. The Bill is supposed to be a reformist piece of legislation to transform not only the model of decentralisation established by the Local Government Act of 1997, but to also undo the colonial legacy of de-concentration. To this end, the government adopted a new decentralisation policy in 2014, which unequivocally provides that the model of decentralisation in Lesotho shall be ‘devolution’. Hence, the 2016 Bill is assessed in this light: whether it implements this policy decision. This paper contends that, while an attempt is made by the Bill to introduce some semblance of autonomy for local authorities, the model of devolution it introduces is in fact very weak and needs significant strengthening if decentralisation is to succeed.

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Chiefs, civil servants and the city council: State–society relations in evolving land delivery processes in Maseru, Lesotho

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Modes of Informal Urban Development

Modes of Informal Urban Development

Towards a comparative research agenda on in situ urbanisation and rural governance transformation

A critique of the newly proposed model of decentralisation in Lesotho

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