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dc.contributor.authorWright, Gemma
dc.contributor.authorNoble, Michael
dc.contributor.authorNtshongwana, Phakama
dc.contributor.authorNeves, David
dc.contributor.authorBarnes, Helen
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-27T12:45:49Z
dc.date.available2019-02-27T12:45:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationWright, G. et al. (2013). Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity. Policy Brief 4, Bellville: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4310
dc.description.abstractThe 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 one side the group of interest briefly (‘lone mothers’), the project originates from research undertaken for the South African Department of Social Development (DSD) about attitudes to employment and social security (Noble et al., 2008; Ntshongwana and Wright, 2010a and 2010b; Ntshongwana et al., 2010; Surender et al., 2007; Surender et al., 2010). During the fieldwork for that programme of research, participants in focus groups repeatedly made the unprompted point that poverty eroded their sense of dignity. Given that the South African Constitution declares that people have inherent dignity and that dignity should be protected and respected (Republic of South Africa, 1996), we decided to dedicate a separate project to exploring the role that social security currently plays in relation to people’s sense of dignity. Specifically we hoped to explore whether social assistance, as a financial transfer to low income people, serves to help to protect and respect people’s dignity, or conversely whether there are ways in which the country’s social security arrangements serve to undermine people’s dignity.en_US
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dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Brief: The centre for the analysis of South African social policy;4
dc.subjectLone Mothersen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectSocial securityen_US
dc.subjectDignityen_US
dc.subjectLone Motherhooden_US
dc.titleLone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.en_US
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