Land is for people—experiences of the community of Khuis

Abstract

This study is an investigation into the social history of the Tlharo, with the aim of articulating and clarifying the particular nature of their experiences in respect of land-related issues. Their circumstances are described against the background of the course of events as directed and influenced by colonisation, apartheid and the ‘new democratic dispensation’. Apart from the pervasive ideological considerations and hegemonic interests that will be outlined, it will also be shown that the Tlharo have undergone radical changes which have fundamentally altered their world, and that they have often been placed at the mercy of bureaucratic whims.