Traditional leadership, violation of land rights and resistance from below in Makhasaneni village, KwaZulu-Natal

Yeni, Sithandiwe

doi:10.2307/j.ctvh8qx3p.13

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“…Examples of this includes the implementation of councils for traditional authorities within the national government (Engelbert, 2002). The responsibilities for chiefs today reach far beyond their traditional responsibilities and their authority is reaching new arenas and partners (Claassens, 2019; Tieleman & Uitermark, 2019; Yeni, 2019). This trend has been driven by new forms of governance, such as decentralization and collaborative governance, that perceives governments as one actor amongst many (Maiden et al., 2021).…”

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Nuancing the spheres of authority of chiefs: State perspectives on hybrid governance

Dahlberg

Söderberg

2023

Governance

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In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the different spheres of authority of chiefs aiming to widen the perspectives on how government‐chief interactions affect the governance process. The framework is applied in our analysis of interviews with government actors involved in area protection in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA). Our results illustrate the variety of approaches and perceptions towards governance with chiefs that exist amongst government actors within the same governance system. Although government actors perceive chiefs in the GLTFCA as a parallel system, chiefs can act as a rival, mediator, adviser, or partner to the government; thus, both enable or hamper government governance. The informal governance arrangements found in the data between government actors and chiefs moreover underscores the importance of qualitative case studies of hybrid governance systems

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