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Table 11.3b Positive and negative impacts of the tourism initiative on community and individual assets and livelihoods - physical
Physical Assets
Negatives
Positives
Mathenjwa
Mqobela
Mathenjwa
Mqobela
Infrastructure:
• Water, waste
• Roads, transport
• Telephone, communication
• No evidence of any signifi-
cant change in quality of
roads, drainage or access to
water or electricity as a
result of the lodge
• Quality of roads worsened
• Drainage worse
• Access to water improved
only marginally
• Some improvement in
access to water, cell phone
communications and
electricity as a result of
existing government
policies and the presence of
game reserve (no evidence
this was as a result of the
tourism initiative)
• Access to water improved
marginally
• Bicycles (4 each) given to
the communities jointly for
use by the Police Forum
Special projects
• Lack of special projects
affecting the community at
large
• Not clear to people how
the work carried on in the
community on buildings is
funded (not transparent)
• Mobile water containers;
'Hippo Rollers' provided by
the lodge to selected
community members
• Curio shop built at the
entrance to the game
reserve and lodge drive
(used by women in the
community to make and sell
curios)
• Building of airstrip in 2003
(cost of ZAR 1 million)
• Improved community
building
Health and education
• Permanent clinic is still
approx 6km away
• Improvement work on 3
classrooms in local school
conducted by KZNNCS
(though no concrete
evidence this was as a result
of the lodge)
• Improved school building
with new classrooms
• Equipment donated to the
school by foreign visitors
• KZN Wildlife to renovate 4
more classrooms at the
local school and secured
commitment from
Wilderness Safaris to do
the rest
Note : 1 ZAR = 0.17714 US$ on 1 January 2005.
 
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