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Table 11.3c Positive and negative impacts of the tourism initiative on community and individual assets and livelihoods - human

Human resources Negatives Positives

Mathenjwa Mqobela Mathenjwa Mqobela

Skills • Only training and skills devel-

opment for minority with
full-time employment
• Not enough people with
accounting and bookkeeping
skills to track finances of
Community Trust

• Only training and skills devel-
opment for minority with
full-time employment
• Not enough people with
accounting and bookkeeping
skills to track finances of
Community Trust

• Training and skills develop-
ment for minority with
full-time employment
• Small number of the commu-
nity have more skills e.g.
computer skills, hospitality

• Training and skills develop-
ment for minority with
full-time employment
• More people in the commu-
nity have more skills e.g.
bookkeeping, computer skills,
hospitality

Education (access
and level)

• No change since lodge
opened
• Bursaries provided by
Mathenjwa Community Trust
only to family of Inkosi

• Bursaries stopped as loans
from the Community Trust
funds stopped
• No incentive for recipients of
bursaries to return to the
community

• Small number of people
studying higher level courses
• Small number of bursaries
exist

• More people studying higher
level courses
• Bursaries from the
Community Trust for commu-
nity members to study
courses in the past

Access to
health care

• No evidence of any change
as a result of the tourism
initiative

• Not improved - -