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The potential of agriculture and land reform to generate jobs
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ...
Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD)
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This report documents research conducted on small-scale informal self-employment at the margins of the
South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa has, by
developing country ...
Beyond the “proper job:” Political-economic analysis after the century of labouring man
(Beyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man, 2018-04)
This programmatic article proposes an approach to global political-economic inquiry in
the wake of the failure of long-established transition narratives, notably the narrative
centred on a universal trajectory from ...
Assessing potential for employment-intensive land reform in South Africa: Key research findings from a CBPEP study
(GTAC, 2020)
The Capacity Building Programme for Employment Promotion (CBPEP) is an EU-funded initiative aimed at assisting the Government of South Africa to attain its goal of reducing unemployment, by building state and institutional ...
Youth unemployment in South Africa revisited
(Taylor Francis, 2013)
One of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economy is high youth unemployment. Recent studies only briefly examined how the youths fared since the transition by comparing the 1995 October Household ...
Revisiting unemployment levels and trends in South Africa since the transition
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Many recent studies compared the 1995 October Household Survey (OHS) with the latest available
Labour Force Survey (LFS) to derive the unemployment ‘trends’ in South Africa since the
transition, but this approach only ...
Changing people, changing lives through public participation and social transformation: A south African case study of a rural development programme
(Routledge, 2020)
During 2009, in what seemed to be a return to RDP-style thinking, the Comprehensive Rural
Development Programme (CRDP) was adopted nationally to tackle not only
underdevelopment, poverty, unemployment, and other social ...
Entrepreneurship and management of small enterprises: An overview of agricultural activities in the Mopani district municipality
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This study analysed entrepreneurial dynamics, activities and challenges confronting small agricultural businesses in the Mopani District Municipality in Limpopo, South Africa. Mopani is a rural district municipality and ...
The value chain and activities of polyethylene terephthalate plastics in the South African waste economy
(SAGE, 2020)
Value chains in their entirety, within the South African context, have not been the
focus of much research thus far. A plethora of research has been done on the various actors
within the value chain, but the rest of the ...
The South African labour market, 1995–2015
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2016)
This study investigates the changes in the South African labourmarket in the post-apartheid period. While unemploymentincreased over the 1995–2015 period, employment also increased.Nonetheless, the extent of employment ...