Sunde, Jackie and Erwin, Kira (2020) Cast out: The Systematic exclusion of the Kwazulu Natal subsistence fishers from the fishing rights regime in South Africa. KZN Subsistence Fisher’s Forum (KZNSFF), South Africa.
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This report will illustrate a process of systematic exclusion from the legal and policy regime for these Durban fishers, who view themselves as subsistence fishers but are not legally recognised as such, has accumulatively taken place since the late 1800s. In the city of Durban and the surrounding small coastal towns, many fishers are descendants of the Indian settlers who were dispossessed of their access to the sea and their fishing rights due to racist discrimination, and later through the notorious Group Areas Act. These fishers have crafted cultural meaning and identity through fishing, historically this offered important symbolic freedom from indentured labour, and later under apartheid provided supplementary livelihoods to support families during the on-going, systematic racist and cultural exclusions. There is ample historical evidence of this in both official records and oral history testimonies. This living history continues in the strong fishing culture of the KZN coastline; through family traditions of going to the piers and beachfront to fish, in the rituals of prayers down at the shore break in the early mornings, in the spicy seafood cuisine for which KZN is famous, and in the vibrant life-giving pulse of the seasonal sardine netting that brings food and livelihoods to hundreds of people along this section of the coast. These cultural and heritage practices remain strongly interleaved with economic linkages for these fishers. The social, cultural and economic fishing networks that span many households and communities in KZN require policy recognition in ways that protect and support these fishers as important users and custodians of marine resources in the province. The Covid-19 lockdown, with its associated restrictions on the freedom of movement of individuals and their ability to sustain their livelihoods, has revealed the continuity of marine resource exclusions for these fishers.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Kwazulu Natal, Subsistence Fisheries, Fishing Rights, South Africa, Policy, Group Areas Act, Discrimination, Livelihoods, Covid, Marine Resources |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2021 05:43 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2021 05:43 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/5978 |
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