| | Capetown Conference on Land Tenure Issues: 11. Cocks, Michelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | In 1983, the Department of Agriculture of the former Ciskei, introduced a system whereby stock owners from neighbouring communal areas in the Middledrift district, where the grazing has been under pressure for some time, were allowed to graze stock on the state farms in return for grazing fees. |
 | | As a result, most of the land belonging to the Xhosa in the area of the Ciskei was alienated and major resettlements to east of the river were effected. |
 | | The land vests in the national government, and certificates in terms of the constitution have to be obtained in order to vest the land in the provincial government, upon which further legal mechanisms must be set in motion to delegate authority to the provincial government to dispose of the land. |
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