Rural settlement

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

Farming, the use of land to grow crops and to rear animals

Question 2

Commercial Farming

Answer 2

Farming for profit

Question 3

Communal farming

Answer 3

Food production on lad that is owned by the group living there, often the land is controlled by the local chief

Question 4

Communal tenure system

Answer 4

Land is owned by the community and the people who live honey have a right to farm that land

Question 5

Dispersed pattern

Answer 5

Settlement dwelling are isolated and spaced far apart from each other

Question 6

Eco-tourism

Answer 6

Responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment and improve the welfare of the local people

Question 7

Extensive farming

Answer 7

Type of commercial farming where the output (yield per hectare) and the labour input are low in relation to the size of the farm. Farms are very big and most processes are mechanized

Question 8

Forced removals

Answer 8

Apartheid policy that forced millions of South Africans to move from the homes and re-settle into specific areas based on race

Question 9

Ghost town

Answer 9

And abandoned town; the population leave because economic activity that supported it has failed

Question 10

Hamlets

Answer 10

A small grouping of a few farmsteads which may have its own church but does not have any shops of services

Question 11

Homelands

Answer 11

The 10 regions within South Africa designated by the apartheid government to be the ‘home country’ of every black person, according to their ethnic identity

Question 12

Intensive farming

Answer 12

Type of commercial farming with the output (yield per hectare) and the labour input is high in relation to the size of the file

Question 13

Isolated farmstead

Answer 13

A settlement which consist of a few building and one or two families

Question 14

Labour tenants

Answer 14

People exchange the labour for use of the land on a farm

Question 15

Locations

Answer 15

Residential areas out of town built by the apartheid authorities for black South Africans in the past

Question 16

Migrant workers

Answer 16

People who migrate from Rural areas and neighboring countries to seek work in the urban areas, often on the mines.

Question 17

Mixed farming

Answer 17

A combination of crops and stock farming

Question 18

monoculture

Answer 18

The practice of producing only one type of crop

Question 19

NGO

Answer 19

Non-governmental organization

Question 20

Nucleated pattern

Answer 20

Settlement dwellings form a dense grouping of buildings

Question 21

Pastoral farming

Answer 21

Raising of animals such as cattle sheep and goats

Question 22

Remittances

Answer 22

Money that is sent back one by migrant workers

Question 23

Rural decay

Answer 23

The effect of rural depopulation; the rural areas become neglected

Question 24

Rural depopulation

Answer 24

The decline in the population of a rural area

Question 25

Rural development

Answer 25

The growth and expansion of rural areas

Question 26

Rural land redistribution

Answer 26

The government buys kind from white commercial farmers and redistributes it, as well as state owned land, to previously disadvantaged communities.

Question 27

Rural land tenure reform

Answer 27

People are given security of land tenure, including communal land ownership and informal ownership of land by farm workers and labor tenants

Question 28

Rural land restitution

Answer 28

Land that was forcibly removed from people(individuals, communities or tribes) under apartheid law is given back to those people. Claims are lodged in with the land claims court, where the outcome is decided.

Question 29

Rural settlement

Answer 29

A small settlement with a small population involved in primary activities; the settlement is unifunctional

Question 30

Rural-urban migration

Answer 30

The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas

Question 31

Subsistence farming

Answer 31

Farming to produce goods for the family

Question 32

Village

Answer 32

A fairly large farming community which provides a few basic services.