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The 2003 Cape Area Study (CAS 3): A User's Guide

Author: Seekings, Jeremy ; Alexander, Karin ; Jooste, Tracy ; Matzner, Isaac Date: 2004 The Cape Area Study (CAS) comprises an ongoing series of surveys conducted in Cape Town.?The surveys have covered and will continue to cover a wide range of topics.?Over time, however, CAS will have a quality that is unique in South Africa ... Read more c b n d
Access to housing in Cape Town : do young people move smoothly from parental housing to independent living arrangements?

Author: Chisonga, Nixon Date: 2010 Most international and local (South African) research on housing examine housing tenure in terms of static categories, - i.e. does someone own or rent their accommodation - without capturing either the dynamics of how people occupy housing ... Read more
Activist networks and political protest in the Free State, 1983-1990

Author: Twala, Chitja ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2010 Chapter 14, Jeremy Seekings collaborates with Chitja Twala to examine activist networks and political protest in the Free State. The authors explain that although no regional UDF structure was ever formally launched in the area there were ... Read more
‘Affordability’ and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: Dec 2016 The ‘affordability’ of new or expanded social protection programmes depends on more than an assessment of the fiscal costs or the poverty-reducing or developmental benefits. Diverse international organisations have showed that programmes ... Read more c b
An assessment of how well social movement theory explains the emergence and development of Rape Crisis Cape Town

Author: Cook, Alison Date: 2005 This thesis uses three social movement theories to analyse the growth and development of Rape Crisis Cape Town (Rape Crisis). Rape Crisis provides counselling to rape victims, education and advocacy. The thesis also uses Rape Crisis to assess ... Read more
Beyond 'fluidity': kinship and households as social projects

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2008 Urban and rural households in South Africa are fluid (in that individuals move between households) and porous (in that individuals may be members of more than one 'household' at the same time). One important consequence of this fluidity and ... Read more c b n d
Beyond heroes and villains: the rediscovery of the ordinary in the study of childhood and adolescence in South Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2006 Writing about young people - or the 'youth' - in South Africa in the 1980s and early 1990s was dominated by representations of them as either the 'heroes' or 'villains' of political struggle. During the political transition, young people ... Read more
The broader importance of welfare reform in South Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2002 On the agenda for welfare reform in South Africa are proposals to expand the public provision of welfare in radical new ways. Not only does this contrast with the prevailing global trend of retrenchment in public welfare systems, but the ... Read more
Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: Dec 2016 Botswana’s welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east). ... Read more
The Carnegie Commission and the Backlash Against Welfare State-Building in South Africa, 1931-1937

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2006 By the late 1930s, South Africa had developed a welfare state that was remarkable in terms of both the range of risks against which it provided and its coverage of the poor – although only for poor white and coloured people. The Carnegie ... Read more
Claims on and obligations to kin in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Harper, Sarah ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2010 Qualitative and quantitative research has shown that non-nuclear family households remain common in post-apartheid South Africa whilst suggesting also that families are less extended than in the past. Most of this research focuses on who lives ... Read more c b n d
The Colour of Desert: Race, Class and Distributive Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2005 This paper examines how racial differences affect perceptions of distributive justice in post-apartheid South Africa. In ‘divided’ societies, citizens might be expected to discriminate on the basis of race or culture in assessing the justice ... Read more c b n d
(Con)Formations of inequality in the emergent non-racial democracy of South Africa : the relationship between economic well-being and attitude to race

Author: Berk, Anita Date: 2006 This research investigates the relationship between economic well-being and attitudes to race amongst its respondents who took part in a survey known as the Cape Area Study (CAS) in 2005. In this inquiry, economic well-being is measured in ... Read more
Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment

Author: Kelly, Gabrielle Gita Date: 2016 Disability is a universally difficult concept to define and assess for social assistance and social insurance purposes. The ways in which access to disability welfare rights are defined and allocated remain especially neglected in the Global ... Read more
The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy ; Matisonn, Heidi Date: 2010 South African government ministers routinely profess their commitment to mitigating poverty and inequality, including - if necessary - through broad and expensive welfare programs. The South African state redistributes approximately 3.5% of ... Read more
The continuing salience of race: Discrimination and diversity in South Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2008 The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa. The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply racialised, ... Read more
Continuity and Change in the South African Class Structure Since the End of Apartheid

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2015 The overall shape of the class structure in South Africa changed little after 1994. The upper and middle classes have grown and prospered, and poverty has probably declined somewhat among the lower classes, but the basic shape remained ... Read more c b
A cut above the rest: Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk Among Xhosa men in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan ; Venkataramani, Atheendar S ; Nattrass, Nicoli ; Seekings, Jeremy ; Whiteside, Alan W Date: 2011 Randomized clinical trials have shown that medical male circumcision substantially reduces the risk of contracting HIV. However, relatively little is known about the relationship between traditional male circumcision and HIV risk. This article ... Read more
Democracy and distribution in highly unequal economies: the case of South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2001 Given that incomes in South Africa are distributed very unequally, it might be expected that the establishment of representative democracy would result in the adoption of redistributive policies. Yet overall inequality has not declined since ... Read more
Democracy, poverty and inclusive growth in South Africa since 1994

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2013 The formal establishment of representative democracy in South Africa provided a weak impetus to effective pro-poor policy-making. Poverty and inequality (of both opportunities and outcomes) have persisted. Political parties want to be seen ... Read more c b n d

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