Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980

dc.contributor.authorSeekings, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-29T13:16:45Z
dc.date.available2016-08-29T13:16:45Z
dc.date.issued2016-06
dc.description.abstractDrought 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 construction, decades later, of an extensive but conservative welfare state. Drought forced the colonial government and then the government headed by Seretse Khama to address aspects of poverty that might otherwise have been ignored. Emergency food aid was replaced by school and other feeding programmes, food-for-work programmes, and modest food relief for other ‘destitutes’. Drought relief in Botswana in the 1960s and 1970s was provided not only on an unprecedented scale but was also institutionalised through programmes administered by a dedicated national and local bureaucracy, independent of the chiefs, and in association with a new international agency, the World Food Programme. Drought also prompted and shaped the development of a normative doctrine of public welfare provision and a new understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the newly independent state to its citizens.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSeekings, J. (2016). <i>Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21590en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSeekings, Jeremy <i>Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21590en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSeekings, J. (2016). Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980. CSSR Working Paper No. 378. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-77011-365-7en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - 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 construction, decades later, of an extensive but conservative welfare state. Drought forced the colonial government and then the government headed by Seretse Khama to address aspects of poverty that might otherwise have been ignored. Emergency food aid was replaced by school and other feeding programmes, food-for-work programmes, and modest food relief for other ‘destitutes’. Drought relief in Botswana in the 1960s and 1970s was provided not only on an unprecedented scale but was also institutionalised through programmes administered by a dedicated national and local bureaucracy, independent of the chiefs, and in association with a new international agency, the World Food Programme. Drought also prompted and shaped the development of a normative doctrine of public welfare provision and a new understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the newly independent state to its citizens. DA - 2016-06 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 SM - 978-1-77011-365-7 T1 - Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980 TI - Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21590 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSeekings J. Drought Relief and the Origins of a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980. 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21590en_ZA
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dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
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