Resettlement and underdevelopment in the Black 'Homelands' of South Africa.

Covers forced population removals in S Africa, with a case study of Lebowa, one of the ten 'Homelands' near Pietersburg in the NE. Assesses the impact of resettlement, with case studies of a rural betterment village and a closer-settlement. Concludes that Homelands function as labour reservoirs for employers to recruit migrant workers; as disposal areas for the old, unemployed, sick, disabled, and those not useful to the white economy. Resettlement is not a developmental process but usually reduces the opportunity for farming or wage employment and increases the necessity to rely on migrant labour remittances and pensions and on the rural informal sector. -M.J.Shepperdson (CDS)