Transforming socio-economic development in QwaQwa community of South Africa

Cias T Tsotetsi; Bunmi Isaiah Omodan

doi:10.20525/ijrbs.v11i3.1762

Authors

Cias T Tsotetsi University of The Free State
Bunmi Isaiah Omodan Walter Sisulu University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9093-3108

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v11i3.1762

Keywords:

Social development, agricultural development, transformation, asset-based community development approach, Qwaqwa

Abstract

In the process of socio-economic development, the rural environment has witnessed various setbacks, mostly in agro-social and the socio-economic sustainability of the QwaQwa community of South Africa. Evidence exists from the literature, our observations and experience that sustainability in the rural economic development of the QwaQwa community is not equal and stable, which has exposed the youths of the community to crime and various anti-social activities such as drugging, drinking, gangsterism, raping, among others. Therefore, the asset-based community development approach was adopted to instigate stakeholders’ intention toward community emancipation. This was done within the lens of the transformative paradigm designed with the community-based participatory action research process. The research comprised key stakeholders such as community leaders, NGOs, and youths. A structured interview was used to elicit information from the selected participants. We used socio-thematic analysis to make sense of the data in order to understand the sociality of the people living within the spotted problem. The study revealed that the community is endowed with arable farming land and team spirit, but criminalities were found to challenge their development. In its quest for rural emancipation, the study also found out that the QwaQwa community needs empowerment programs in social and agricultural skill development.

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