the richtersveld cultural and botanical landscape - SAHRA

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Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape World Heritage Site Nomination 107 community were to have the communal lands placed under the ownership of the local municipality or under a Community Property Association. In the case of the Richtersveld communal land the community voted overwhelmingly to retain ownership of their land that would be formalised by way of a Community Property Association structure and in 2001 the Sida !Hub Community Property Association (referred to as the “CPA”) was created constituting every adult member of the four Richtersveld towns of Eksteenfontein, Kuboes, Lekkersing and Sandrift (adult members of the community are those over the age of 18 who have lived in any of the towns for five years or more). Thus the ownership of the Richtersveld Community Conservancy resides with the entire community, and formal title holding is expecting to be transferred to the CPA from the Minister of the Department of Land Affairs in the near future. The CPA is currently represented by a committee of elected members of the community. Decisions of land use are taken by the CPA and close relations are maintained with local government (the Richtersveld Municipality), as well as with District and Provincial governments. People residing in and around the Conservancy area, primarily the Nama and Bosluis Baster pastoralists are members of the CPA and thus landowners themselves. The Conservancy is comprised of one contiguous protected area of approximately 160,000 hectares. Additionally, the Nababiep (helskloof) Provincial Nature Reserve borders on the Conservancy’s eastern boundary and is to be transferred from the Northern Cape Province’s Department of Tourism, Environment and Conservation (DTEC) to the CPA for inclusion in the Conservancy. This is a testament to the success of the Richtersveld Community Conservancy. Buffer zones surrounding the Conservancy are comprised mainly of two types of ownership. The Richtersveld National Park on the northern boundary is also part of the Richtersveld communal area and hence is owned by the Richtersveld Sida !hub CPA, and is co-managed by the community and the South African National Parks (SANParks) through the Richtersveld Gemeenskaplike Bestuurskomitee, known as the RGBK and roughly translated as the Richtersveld Communal Management Committee. The Communal Grazing Area bordering the Conservancy to the West,
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape World Heritage Site Nomination 108 South and East is under CPA ownership. The area to the northeast consists of the Orange River and the political border with Namibia. Summary of Land Ownership Area Ownership Richtersveld Community Conservancy Sida !hub Community Property Association (CPA) Helskloof Provincial Nature Reserve Northern Cape Province (soon to be transferred to CPA) Buffer Zone – North (Richtersveld National Sida !hub Community Property Association Park) (CPA) Buffer Zones – East, South, West Sida !Hub Community Property Association (CPA) There exists good harmony between the Richtersveld Municipality, which is the administrative authority for the municipal area and the landowner which is the CPA. Their relationship is governed by a Memorandum of Understanding. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Richtersveld Municipality and the Richtersveld Sida !Hub Community Property Association (CPA) The Richtersveld CPA and the Local Government signed an MoU, on 11 June 2004, to promote good cooperation between the parties in terms of planning and development of the Richtersveld area’s resources. This was designed to ensure progress and growth in the region, which is the main principle of the MoU document. Both parties accepted the following guidelines: • Investigation and implementation of cooperation opportunities • Explanation of the different roles of each party in relation to the community • Closure of agreements which would benefit the community • Addressing of differences of opinion and solutions which would be in the best interest of the community • Regular official meetings between the parties
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