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Population Mobility in Rural Swaziland: a Research Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

John P. Lea
John P. Lea
Affiliation:
Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Population mobility in its various forms has long been recognised as a major determinant of social and economic policies in many transitional, which is the stage in a country's economic development that has been defined by W. W. Rostow as the ‘transitional era when a society prepares itself – or is prepared by external forces – for sustained growth’1 Although much has been published about population migration in Africa, little research has been conducted into the nature and frequency of periodic visits by rural inhabitants to the main urban centres. These journeys are of particular interest to those who are engaged in the physical planning of rural settlements as they provide a clue to the identification of those amenities and services that may be required in the future, as well as the level of demands upon the local transportation system.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 1974 , pp. 673 - 679
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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Page 673 note 1 Rostow, W. W., The Stages of Economic Growth (New York, 1969), p. 17.Google Scholar

Page 673 note 2 Cf. Caldwell, J. C., African Rural—Urban Migration: the movement to Ghana's towns (Canberra, 1969);Google Scholar and J., W. and Hanna, J. L., Urban Dynamics in Black Africa (Chicago, 1971).Google Scholar

Page 673 note 3 See Lea, J. P., ‘The Geographic Determinants of Housing Policy in Swaziland’, Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1974.Google Scholar

Page 674 note 1 See Matsebula, J. S. M., A History of Swaziland (Cape Town, 1972), pp. 35–8.Google Scholar

Page 674 note 2 Jones, H. M., Report on the 1966 Swaziland Population Census (Mbabane, 1968), pp. 381–2.Google Scholar

Page 674 note 3 Lea, op. cit. p. 254.

Page 674 note 4 The detailed discussion of sampling methods can be found in ibid. pp. 371–2.

Page 675 note 1 Ibid. p. 138.

Page 675 note 2 Lea, J. P., ‘Underlying Determinants of Housing Location: a case study from Swaziland’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), xi, 2, 06 1973, pp. 211–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Page 676 note 1 Hanna and Hanna, op. cit. p. 32.

Page 676 note 2 Mabogunje, A. L., ‘Systems Approach to a Theory of Rural—Urban Migration’, in Geographical Analysis (Ohio), 2, 1970, p. 11.Google Scholar

Page 676 note 3 Caldwell, op. cit. p. 62.

Page 677 note 1 Herrick, B. H., Urban Migration and Economic Development in Chile (Cambridge, Mass., 1965), p. 77.Google Scholar

Page 679 note 1 Cf. Friedmann, J. R., Regional Development Policy (Cambridge, Mass., 1966).Google Scholar

Page 679 note 2 See Swaziland Government, Second National Development Plan, 1973–1977 (Mbabane, 1973).Google Scholar

Page 679 note 3 Ibid. p. 152.

Page 679 note 4 Ibid. p. 123.