Browsing by Author "de Swardt, Cobus"

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    • Cape Town's African poor 

      de Swardt, Cobus (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
      The typical ‘face of poverty’ in South Africa is no longer that of a rural woman engaged in subsistence agricultural production. Poverty today also refers to the large number of unemployed men who wait daily in vain on ...

    • Urban poverty in Cape Town 

      de Swardt, Cobus; Puoane, Thandi; Chopra, Mickey; du Toit, Andries (Sage Publications, 2005)
      This paper describes key findings of a household livelihood survey conducted in impoverished African settlements in Cape Town, one of Africa’s wealthiest cities. Poverty in these areas is strongly shaped by the history ...