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    South Africa’s Child Support Grant and the dignity of female caregivers 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
    The Child Support Grant (CSG) is social assistance for children with low income caregivers. It is currently paid at the rate of R310 per month and there are more than 11 million child beneficiaries. Almost all (98%) of ...
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    Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity. 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
    The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
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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, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights introduces the recognition of the inherent dignity of all people as a foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Dignity plays a prominent role in South Africa’s ...
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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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    Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity. 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
    The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
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    Examining livelihoods and reconsidering rural development in the former homelands of South Africa 

    Neves, David (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 ...
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    Changing livelihoods in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing employment and expanding social protection 

    Hajdu, Flora; Neves, David; Granlund, Stefan (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
    This is evident in South Africa’s former ‘homelands’, the site where this study examined changes in rural livelihoods over a 14-year period. Detailed survey data (collected in 2002 and 2016) from two villages in the Pondoland ...
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    The role of social security in respecting and protecting the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa: Summary of findings and recommendations 

    Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (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 ...
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    Livelihoods & social differentiation in ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa 

    Neves, David (2017)
    • Legacy: Settler colonialism & migrant labour • Industrialization & proletarianisation • Dichotomous agrarian landscape • Rural poverty, esp. former homelands • Longstanding deagrarianisation
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    The social dynamics of rural poverty in the Eastern Cape 

    Neves, David (2017)
    Overview • Structural poverty & its causes • Understanding impoverished livelihoods : i. Social grants ii. Informal economic activity • Social dynamics • ‘Informal social protection’ • The downside of ‘social capital’
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