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Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2007 The constitution charges the government with the progressive realisation of the right of impoverished citizens to income security.? In practice, this means that the government must have a reasonable defence of the current size and shape of ... Read more c b n d
Deserving individuals and groups: the post-apartheid state's justification of the shape of South Africa's system of social assistance

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2008 The constitution charges the government with the progressive realisation of the right of impoverished citizens to income security. In practice, this means that the government must have a reasonable defence of the current size and shape of its ... Read more
The 'Developmental' and 'Welfare' State in South Africa: Lessons for the Southern African Region

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2015 Enthusiasm for the idea of a 'developmental state' emerged in South Africa in the early 1990s, re-surfaced in the mid-2000s, and re-emerged yet again after 2007. The idea appealed to the statist instincts of many ANC leaders, and got momentum ... Read more c b
Differentiation within the South African clothing industry: implications for wage setting and employment

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2012 The South African clothing industry is the most labour-intensive segment of South Africa?s manufacturing industry, but it is far from monolithic, encompassing a set of different sub-sectors with different market niches andproduction technologies. ... Read more c b n d
Do South Africa's unemployed constitute an underclass?

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2003 High rates of long-term unemployment pose difficulties for the mapping of the class structure. In South Africa, the high rate of long-term unemployment raises the question of whether or not the unemployed constitute a separate class or ... Read more c b n d
Does low-income homeownership work? The effects of titling among beneficiaries in Cape Town and Lusaka

Author: Muyeba, Singumbe Date: 2013 The provision of real property rights through titling and informal settlements upgrading is widely imagined to have considerable direct and indirect effects on urban poverty. The evidence for such effects is, however, scarce, partial rather ... Read more
Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: Jun 2016 Drought played – and continues to play – a central role in welfare state-building across much of Africa. Botswana was perhaps the first major case of this, with drought in the mid-1960s prompting policy reforms that were to lead to the ... Read more c b n d
The dynamics of consumer credit and household indebtedness in South Africa

Author: Ssebagala, Ralph A Date: 2015 Consumer credit has become an important element of the South African economy. Given the limits on state social security payments, and the chronic absence of substantial household savings, consumer credit has come to play a vital role as a ... Read more
The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2010 The South African economy experienced substantial growth and change over the course of the twentieth century. By the time of Union in 1910, gold-mining on the Witwatersrand had already and rapidly transformed what had been a peripheral ... Read more c b n d
Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS

Author: De Lannoy, Ariane Date: 2008 One of the ways in which AIDS is said to ravage the lives of young people is through its impact on education. Youth and their caregivers might respond to shortened life expectancy by investing less in schooling. No evidence has been presented ... Read more
Educational inputs and student outcomes in South Africa

Author: Kent, Steven Date: 2003 South Africa has a notoriously inefficient public schooling system. Levels of educational attainment and achievement are low given the large amount of resources devoted to schools. Improving student outcomes requires the examination of both ... Read more
Employment guarantee or minimum income?: workfare and welfare in developing countries

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2006 In many 'developing' countries widespread poverty is linked to landlessness and unemployment. Two possible responses to such poverty are employment guarantee (or public works) programmes and cash transfers. In general, low-wage job creation ... Read more
Employment guarantee or minimum income?: workfare and welfare in developing countries

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2006 In many parts of the 'South' - i.e. the 'developing' countries of the world - widespread poverty is linked to landlessness and unemployment.? Two possible responses to such poverty are employment guarantee (or public works) programmes and ... Read more c b n d
Encouraging exclusivity: The electoral system and campaigning in the 1999 South African Election

Author: Davis, Gavin Date: 2003 This dissertation provides an analysis of the 1999 election campaign and considers how each of the main parties appealed to the politically salient groups in South Africa. The case is put forward that the electoral system--closed-list ... Read more
Exploring atitudes towards immigrants in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Murambiwa, Rutendo Date: 2011 Earlier studies conducted in South Africa suggest that negative attitudes towards immigrants are widespread and driven by resource strain, issues around national identity, and the process of ‘othering’. This study uses data from the fifth ... Read more
From protest to development : the dynamics of change at the Western Province Council of Churches

Author: Bray, Roderick Neil Date: 1995 The Western Province Council of Churches (WPCC) is an ecumenical organisation based in Cape Town which promotes ideals of justice. From 1971 to 1995 it was a branch of the South African Council of Churches. The WPCC regards itself as a ... Read more
Growing up in the new South Africa: childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town

Author: Bray, Rachel ; Gooskens, Imke ; Moses, Sue ; Kahn, Lauren ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2011 How has the end of apartheid affected the experiences of South African children and adolescents? This pioneering study provides a compelling account of the realities of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing ... Read more c b n
Homeownership and neighbourly relations in poor Post-Apartheid urban neighbourhoods of Cape Town

Author: Muyeba, Singumbe ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2012 The South African government has delivered many low-cost houses under freehold homeownership, in part on the assumption that neighbourhoods of homeowners will result in economically and socially viable communities. Drawing on qualitative data ... Read more
How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2003 The quality of schooling in South Africa is a continuing cause for concern. There is broad consensus around the goals of reform, but not about how these goals might or should be achieved. This is because there is little evidence on the effects ... Read more c b n d
“How have social grants in Zambia been paid and what lessons can be learnt from this?”

Author: Nkhoma, Henry Date: 2019 From the use of manual payment systems in the delivery of social cash transfers, most developing nations nowadays are resorting to electronic payment solutions to improve the timeliness and effective delivery of the social grants amidst ... Read more

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