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Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975
Thesis (DPhil (Anthropology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28053 Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 Niehaus, Isak kloppersr@mweb.co.za Kloppers, Roelof Jacobus Cross-border trade Displacement Ethnicity Maputaland Mabudu-tembe Spirit possession Smuggling Refugees Illegal border crossings Mozambican war Citizenship Borderland culture Boundaries Borders UCTD Thesis (DPhil (Anthropology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. The southern Mozambique/ South Africa borderland is a landscape epitomised by fluctuation, contradiction and constant transformation. It is a world betwixt-and-between Mozambique and South Africa. The international border, imposed on the landscape more than a century ago, gives life to a new world that stretches across and away from it. The inhabitants of this transitional zone constantly shape and reshape their own identities vis-à-vis people on the opposite and same side of the border. This border, which was delineated in 1875, was to separate the influence spheres of Portugal and Britain in south-east Africa. On the ground it divided the once strong and unified Mabudu-Tembe (Tembe-Thonga) chiefdom. At first the border was only a line on a map. With time, however, it became infused with social and cultural meaning as the dividing line between two new worlds. This was exacerbated by Portuguese and British colonial administration on opposite sides of the border, Apartheid in South Africa and socialist modernisation and war and displacement in Mozambique. All these events and factors created cultural fragmentation and disunion between the northern and southern sides of the borderland. By the end of the Mozambican War in 1992 the northern side of the borderland was populated by displaced refugees, demobilised soldiers and bandits, as well as returnees from neighbouring countries. Many of these people did not have any ancestral ties to the land nor kinship ties to its earlier inhabitants. Whereas a common Thonga identity had previously united people on both sides of the border, South African policies of Apartheid increasingly promoted the Zulu language and culture on the southern side of the border. The end of warfare in Mozambique and of Apartheid in South Africa facilitated contact across the border. Social contact between the inhabitants of the borderland is furthermore fostered by various economic opportunities offered by the border, such as cross-border trade and smuggling. The increase in social and economic contact has in turn dissolved differences between the inhabitants of the borderland and promoted homogeneity and unity across the political divide. Fragmentation and homogeneity characterises daily life in the borderland. Inhabitants of the frontier-zone play these forces off against each other, now emphasising the differences across the border, later emphasising the similarities. The borderland is a world of multiple identities, where ethnicity, citizenship and identity, already fluid and contextual concepts in their own rights, become even more so as people constantly define and redefine themselves in this transitional environment. Anthropology and Archaeology unrestricted 2013-09-07T12:47:13Z 2005-09-20 2013-09-07T12:47:13Z 2005-07-06 2006-09-20 2005-09-20 Thesis Kloppers, R 2005, Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975, DPhil thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28053 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28053 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09202005-143545/ © 2005, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Cross-border trade Displacement Ethnicity Maputaland Mabudu-tembe Spirit possession Smuggling Refugees Illegal border crossings Mozambican war Citizenship Borderland culture Boundaries Borders UCTD Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 |
| title | Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 |
| title_full | Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 |
| title_fullStr | Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 |
| title_short | Border crossings : life in the Mozambique/South Africa borderland since 1975 |
| title_sort | border crossings life in the mozambique south africa borderland since 1975 |
| topic | Cross-border trade Displacement Ethnicity Maputaland Mabudu-tembe Spirit possession Smuggling Refugees Illegal border crossings Mozambican war Citizenship Borderland culture Boundaries Borders UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28053 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09202005-143545/ |