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Informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks: Vulnerability, social networks and reciprocal exchange in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-01)
This paper considers the dynamics of informal social protection in the context of chronic poverty and vulnerability in post-apartheid migrant networks. It argues that in poor and marginalised households in South Africa, ...
More to life than economics and livelihoods: The politics of social protection and social development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-03)
In the past fifteen years the South African government has consistently tried to address chronic and structural poverty, using a variety of policy and programmatic interventions with uneven success. But, as the latest ...
Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-01)
This paper describes the findings of in-depth qualitative case studies based research on how poor and marginalised people in post-apartheid migrant networks seek to ameliorate poverty and manage their vulnerability. It ...
Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing
(University of the Free State, 2008)
This article traces the politics of meaning-fixing with respect to the role
of the defence force as apartheid declined from the mid-1980s, as it was negotiated
from a current to a past organising principle of the “security ...
Citizenship, community participation and social change: The case of area coordinating teams in Cape Town, South Africa
(Wiley, 2004)
Social change does not roll in under the wheels of inevitability On the contrary; we have to organize for it, mobilize for it, struggle for it and indeed, plan for it. This is especially so in a country such as South Africa, ...
The politics of social change and the transition to democratic governance: Community participation in post-apartheid South Africa
(Juta, 2008)
Community participation, i.e. the direct involvement/engagement of ordinary people in the affairs of planning, governance and overall development programs at the local or grassroots level, has become an integral part of ...
The Everyday at Grassroots level: poverty, protest and social change in post-apartheid South Africa
(CLACSO, 2009)
This paper posits that social change derives from how the everyday is encountered,
analyzed and experienced at the grassroots level. Drawing extensively
from the seminal work of Henri Lefebvre, the paper argues that for ...
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(University of Cape Town, 2007)
This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to ...
More than socially embedded: The distinctive character of ‘communal tenure’ regimes in South Africa and its implications for land policy
(Wiley, 2007)
This article analyzes debates over tenure reform policy in post-apartheid South Africa, with a particular focus on the controversial Communal Land Rights Act of 2004. Land tenure systems in the ...