ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the Independent Development Trust's (IDT) programme of job creation and associated attempts to facilitate development which they undertook on behalf of the central government’s Department of Agriculture. The programme was launched after staff of the IDT established contact with the affected communities in early 1994 and informed them about the programme, what it offered and its requirements. The chapter provides an authority based job-creation / public works programme is the focus. This programme was launched by the state to try and provide relief in destitute rural communities in the Eastern Cape and to induce local development, in consultation with those communities. The ‘Border Corridor’ is the strip of ‘white’ South Africa lying between the two former Homelands of Ciskei and Transkei. Probably the most obvious is the fact that community-development is more than externally designed objectives and projects which attempt to fit a community into a defined role.