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Factors affecting consumers’ intention towards purchasing halal food in South Africa: a structural equation modelling
(Routledge, 2018)
This research study highlighted the factors that influence the intention of consumers to buy halal food products. In this study, the researchers have chosen to address the gap in the literature pertaining to non-South ...
Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...
Social protests and water service delivery in South Africa
(2013-09-13)
• To identify the key drivers of water-related social protests, roles of organization and mobilization and dynamics of perceived deprivation.
Land redistribution in South Africa: Towards decolonisation or recolonisation?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Contrary to populist political discourses, in South Africa the ruling party’s approach to land
policy is reproducing paternalistic relations that echo apartheid practices and represent the
’colonial present’. This reality ...
The role of social security in respecting and protecting the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa: Summary of findings and recommendations
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study explored lone mothers’ experiences of social security in South
Africa in terms of whether it protects and respects their dignity. Interviews
were undertaken with almost two hundred low income lone mothers ...
Livelihoods & social differentiation in ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa
(2017)
• Legacy: Settler colonialism & migrant labour
• Industrialization & proletarianisation
• Dichotomous agrarian landscape
• Rural poverty, esp. former homelands
• Longstanding deagrarianisation
Economic informality in South Africa: practice & policy
(2015)
SA context:
• High poverty & unemployment, yet small SMME sector.
• Informal sector: African, low earning, female & retail dominated.
• Inhibited by: – Spatial, labour market & ‘human capital’ legacies
Social security and the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This working paper forms part of a project entitled ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa:
The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. The project originates from
research undertaken for the South African ...
The impact of poverty and inequality on the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this themed working paper is to explore lone mothers’ accounts of what dignity
means in the context of their lives and how the experience of poverty and inequality impacts on
their sense of dignity. This ...
Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The
marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also smallscale
fishing, ...