the richtersveld cultural and botanical landscape - SAHRA

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Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape World Heritage Site Nomination 101 Plan (IDP) of the Richtersveld Municipality and been accepted by the CPA as a fully endorsed Protected Area. The Richtersveld Community Conservancy is managed by a Management Committee whose role is to ensure that the management of the Conservancy is carried out in accordance to the Management Plan (please refer to section 5e). The Committee meets four times a year and includes representatives from the following organisations and associations: Members of the Richtersveld Community Conservancy Management Committee NAME ORGANISATION Gert Links Conservancy Manager Joan Cloete Conservancy Administrative Officer Polly Smith Eksteenfontein community Bettie Farmer Eksteenfontein community Kleinbooi Mpambani Sanddrift community Anna Slander Sanddrift community Andries Joseph Kuboes community Sylvia Hans Kuboes community Ivan Nero Lekkersing community Jacob Diergaardt Lekkersing community Izak Cloete Richtersveld Small Miners Association Abuys De Wet Richtersveld Tourism Association Klaas Van Zyl Department, Tourism, Environment & Conservation Joseph Domrogh RGBK Andy Davies South African National Parks Ivan Groenewald District Municipality Jacob Fredericks Richtersveld Sida !hub Community Property Association (CPA) Dirkie Uys Richtersveld Municipality Sintie Cloete Lekkersing community Willem De Wet Richtersveld Traditional Nama Council Joshua De Wet Richtersveld CPA The day-to-day management of the Conservancy is carried out by the Operational Management Committee, which includes the Conservancy Manager, the Administrative Officer and the Coordinator of the Richtersveld CBNRM Programme. The Manager’s tasks include carrying out patrols of the area, directing any development activity, monitoring land use by pastoralists, liasing with stakeholders (CPA, government, South African National Parks (SANParks) authorities and
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape World Heritage Site Nomination 102 neighbouring properties). The Administrative Officer’s tasks include financial reporting, bookkeeping, planning management committee meetings and keeping of Conservancy records. The Operational Management Committee hold weekly operational meetings to manage tasks associated with conservation and development projects active in the Conservancy (such as the infrastructure development project by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and the UNDP project for development of a research facility), tourism, livestock herding, and general protective issues related to the site, as well as the surrounding areas. Legal Protection: Establishment of a Heritage Area (Section 31 of the National Heritage Resource Act (1999) The CPA and Conservancy Management, with support of local, provincial and national government, are currently in the process of taking protective status a step further to declare the Conservancy as a Heritage Area which will give the Conservancy legal protective status. The application for becoming a Heritage Area under Section 31 of the National Heritage Resource Act (NHRA) is being lodged by the CPA as a landowner in conjunction with the Northern Cape Provincial Department of Sport, Arts & Culture and the Richtersveld Municipality. The process of moving towards formal protection of the Richtersveld Community Conservancy has been a long and well considered one with a number of possible options in terms of applicable legislation being considered. Given the history of the Richtersveld and that the people who live there have after several hundred years of hardship and deprivation only very recently obtained formal title to the area, systems of protection that involve considerable intervention and management on the part of outside authority were not acceptable to the community which quite correctly believes that its traditions and traditional management systems are what have up to the present time protected the area and determined that its universal values have remained intact. Given that from a cultural perspective what is proposed for nomination is a cultural landscape, the maintenance of which depends upon perpetuation of practices and traditions that are in large part intangible, though very dependant on the sound
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