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    The trouble with poverty: reflections on South Africa's post-apartheid anti-poverty consensus 

    du Toit, Andries (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
    This paper considers the state of poverty discourse in South Africa since 1994: the ideological frameworks, narratives and assumptions that have shaped the construction of poverty as an object of academic knowledge, ...
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    Farm workers and farm dwellers in Limpopo, South Africa: struggles over tenure, livelihoods and justice 

    Zamchiya, Phillan; Shirinda, Shirhami; Hall, Ruth; Wisborg, Poul (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2013)
    In the late 1990s land and agrarian issues remained a barrier to the enjoyment of human rights and justice for millions of South Africans. With funding from the Norwegian government, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights ...
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    Land Reform in South Africa: Is it meeting the challenge? 

    Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2001)
    As recent events at Brendell and elsewhere have demonstarted, land and landlessness remain critical issues in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper presents a brief overview of the key challenges facing land reform in ...
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    The impact of poverty and inequality on the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama (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 ...
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    The impact of poverty and inequality on the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
    In Part 1 of this themed working paper, an account is provided of low income lone mothers’ portrayals of dignity in relation to their lives. A key objective of the project was to explore what ‘dignity’ means to low income ...
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    Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
    Dignity is a foundational value in South Africa’s Constitution and is also experienced as a psycho-social phenomenon. Dimensions of dignity were explored with almost two hundred low income female caregivers and the impact ...
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    Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD) 

    Neves, David; Aliber, Michael; Mogaladi, Jan; du Toit, Andries (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 ...
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    Report on an international symposium: The politics of poverty research and pro-poor policy making: Learning from the practice of policy dialogue 

    Cornell, Vaun (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
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    Overcoming inequality and structural poverty in South Africa 

    PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
    Data indicates that between 1994 and 2008 poverty in South Africa declined marginally, but that inequality continues to increase, and the full impact of the rise in unemployment following the global financial crisis has ...
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    In search of South Africa’s second economy: Chronic poverty, vulnerability and adverse incorporation in Mt. Frere and Khayelitsha 

    du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
    Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘first world ...
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    Authordu Toit, Andries (4)Neves, David (4)Noble, Michael (3)Ntshongwana, Phakama (3)Wright, Gemma (3)Aliber, Michael (1)Baipheti, Mompati (1)Barnes, Helen (1)Cornell, Vaun (1)Hall, Ruth (1)... View MoreSubject
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