Table 3. Livelihood strategies associated with household cluster groups, and the principal activities determining each strategy for Khawa and Kedia in 2004 and 2005. Principal activities were identified using principal components analysis. Differentiation of livelihood activities between cluster groups was more significant (clear cut) in Kedia than in Khawa, with a greater proportion of the cumulative percentage of total variance explained in Kedia than in Khawa at each level of analysis.
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Settlement |
Khawa |
Kedia |
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Household cluster group |
Accumulator |
Diversifier |
Dependent |
Accumulator |
Diversifier |
Dependent |
|
Livelihood strategy |
Diversified strategy with tendency to specialize |
Diversified strategy with tendency for dependency |
Dependency
strategy |
Specialized
strategy |
Diversified
strategy |
Dependency strategy |
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Principal livelihood activities differentiating clusters
(in order of significance) |
Livestock specialization often accompanied with permanent
employment and/or commercial business |
Involved in broad range of activities; greatest dependence
of all clusters on child benefits |
Dependent on destitute relief, orphan relief, pensions, and
drought relief |
Livestock and arable cultivation specialization |
Employment, commercial business, livestock, and/or cultivation |
Dependent on destitute relief, orphan relief, pensions, and
drought relief, as well as household level income strategies
(e.g., alcohol brewing, baking) and laborer activities (e.g.,
herding/digging wells) |
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Social Identity |
Pastoralist
Hunter
Employee (mainly working for government)
Syndicate members
Settlement leader
|
Pastoralist
Hunter-gatherer
Herder
Destitute
|
Destitute
Hunter-gatherer
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Agro-pastoralist
|
Employee
Agro-pastoralist
Hunter
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Destitute
Labourer
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Ethnic Identity |
Mixed (Bakgalagadi absent)
50% Batlharo
38% Bakgatla
12% Other |
Mixed (Bakgalagadi absent)
73% Batlharo
7% Bakgatla
20% Other |
Mixed (Bakgalagadi present)
77% Batlharo
9% Bakgatla
9% Bakgalagadi
5% Mix |
Bakgalanga
100% Bakalanga |
Mixed (minority groups absent)
40% Bakalanga
20% Bakurutse
20% Basarwa
20% Bateti and Bakgalagadi |
Mixed (includes a high proportion of Basarwa and all minority
groups)
37% Bakalanga
33% Basarwa
15% Bateti
7% minority groups (Banajwa and Bakwena) |
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Average household size (average number of adults absent
from settlement in 2004/5) |
10.5 (1.4) |
10.5 (1.4) |
9.1 (1.5) |
6.3 (1.7) |
6.7(1.6) |
6.2 (0.9) |
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