Browsing by Author "Jacobs, Toughedah"

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    An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai
    (2007) Jacobs, Toughedah; Leiman, Anthony
    In many of the small communities of South Africa's West Coast, the economic driver has traditionally been the fishing industry. Employment opportunities were largely located either on board the vessels or in a fish-processing factory which in some smaller centres was a monopsonistic employer. The last two decades have seen this system under threat. Fish stocks have declined and fish populations have move southward, while the fishing industry has been restructured to meet BEE imperatives, meaning that old established firms found their quotas even further decreased. To cut costs, fishing companies shed jobs and in extreme cases shut down their smaller operations. As they left the smaller centres they took with them their managerial skills, as well as capital and employment. The fishermen and women in these towns, have found it difficult to fill the vacuum, lacking as they do, organisation, access to credit, administrative and marketing skills, and above all critical information related to the process of issuing fishing rights (Isaacs, 2006, 57), (Amason & Kashorte, 2006, 48). The decline of the West Coast fisheries was latterly accompanied by the extension of the permit process; access to the resource being restructured initially in a 'medium term' and then in a long term rights application process. Those fishermen who were unsuccessful in acquiring access rights were trapped in a cycle of poverty and increasingly forced to fish illegally or 'poach' to survive. The decline of the stock means that there are no simple answers to the problem, I argue however, that it would be beneficial for the South African Government to embark on a co-management programme with these fishing communities.
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    Income and Non-Income Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa: What are the Drivers and Possible Policy Interventions
    (2010-01) Bhorat, Haroon; van der Westhuizen, Carlene; Jacobs, Toughedah
    The objectives of the study were the identification of the drivers of the increasing levels of inequality in South Africa, as well as the assessment of the impact and sustainability of policy interventions such as the provision of social grants.
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    Income and Non-Income Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa: What are the Drivers and Possible Policy Interventions?
    (2009-08) Bhorat, Haroon; van der Westhuizen, Carlene; Jacobs, Toughedah
    Analysis using data from the 1995 and 2000 Income and Expenditure Surveys has found a significant increase in income inequality over the period and, further, that this increase in inequality eroded any significant poverty-reduction gains from higher economic growth.
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    An Overview of Strike Activities in South Africa, 1999-2011
    (2013-07) Jacobs, Toughedah; Yu, Derek
    This factsheet presents longer-term trends on strike activities covering the period from 1999 to 2011. It begins by looking at the overall extent of industrial action, before examining what has been happening across industries, provinces and trade unions, as well as the principle cause of disputes.