Dwesa-Cwebe: Brief analysis

This review follows a five day day field based learning session on the failure to implement the co management agreement in Dwesa Cwebe. It highlights a range of problems evident in 2007/8 including:

• Remote location with poor road infrastructure resulting in officials being reluctant to venture into the area and to allocate the necessary travelling time
• A Settlement Agreement which does not seem to enjoy the support of some of the signatory departments
• Overwhelmingly complex project requiring a high level of development skills to implement.
• Institutional confusion and a failure to co-ordinate government inputs.
• Large number of discrete communities who possess an inadequate and sometimes different understanding of the Settlement Agreement.
• Lack of progressive and determined leadership among the communities.
• No active legal representation for the claimant community