Investigating sustainable tourism development of Southern Transkei: A normative study

Abstract

One of the major challenges facing the new dispensation in South Africa is an implementable policy strategy to achieve sustainable development in predominantly rural area economies that have never had proper guidance or support to grow, despite their potentialities, before 1994 up to the present. This challenge has emerged at a time when the lack of sustainable development in these areas can no longer be simply blamed on the apartheid regime, and when this lack of development and progress requires radical, immediate change. This challenge has emerged at a time where there is need for insight in the current development programmes in such areas to measure the progress made in eradicating destructive poverty cycles. A challenge that tests the commitment of the South African government and private sector redress programmes the question of past economic development imbalances, justice for all, the advancement of a people’s democracy, and the physical development of undeveloped and underdeveloped predominantly rural areas, such as the Southern Transkei region