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Retribalisation in post-apartheid South Africa: new “traditional” laws & their impacts on rural women
(2011)
• The rise of traditional leaders – in political, economic, governmental, judicial & legislative terms – amounts to a modern, post-apartheid retribalisation of the countryside
• Deleterious effect on rights
• Roots of ...
Examining livelihoods and reconsidering rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Persistent poverty and under-development in South Africa’s
former homeland communal areas have been little changed by
post-apartheid ‘rural development’ policy. Rural development
policy has often been characterised by ...
Reflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour market
(University of Cape Town, 2014)
During the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines.
Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress.
In ...
Book review: Building a capable state: service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)
Written by long-standing research practitioners Ian Palmer and Nishendra Moodley,
as well as one of South Africa’s leading academic urbanists, Professor Sue Parnell,
Building a Capable State tackles the hard
question ...
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 ...
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 ...