Poverty, Survival, and Democracy in Southern Africa
Author | : Robert B. Mattes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert B. Mattes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeremy Seekings |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1137452692 |
Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world.
Author | : Conrad Barberton |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781874864493 |
Author | : Robert B. Mattes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fred Hendricks |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789171065087 |
The transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa has raised questions, on the one hand, about the tension between the imperatives of justice and equality and, on the other, reconciliation. Transforming the decades' old apartheid system under conditions of a political compromise has turned out to be a formidable challenge. This paper is about the complexity of the transformation process going on in South Africa. Although too early for a real assessment of the experi-ment, the tensions, dilemmas, contradictions, paradoxes and some of the changes have already begun to mani-fest themselves.The paper shows how political deals affect the administration of justice, and how they impinge upon the nature of democracy, often by frustrating efforts to realise social goals in the post-authoritarian phase. It also raises the fundamental question of the broader necessities for the long-term survival of democracy in South Africa.
Author | : Godfrey Kanyenze |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-12-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9956764396 |
The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neo-liberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way. To what extent do the countries of Southern Africa exhibit the characteristics of such a developmental state? What steps, if any, do they need to take in order to become one? The book answers the questions with respect to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi. Godfrey Kanyenze and his colleagues have assembled a distinguished team of writers to take the temperature of the regional political economy, and chart a path for its future development.
Author | : Mamphela Ramphele |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3643801629 |
Within the past 18 years of democratic rule in South Africa, the disparities have hardly been reduced, as is manifest in the realms of education, health, security, and employment. As a former liberation movement, the African National Congress underestimated the tasks ahead when transforming South African society, and the degree to which the apartheid legacy impacted the people's ability to make use of their democratic rights and to call politicians to account for their performance. This book calls for citizen responsibility to shape the nation's future and defend the rights of liberty enshrined in its constitution. (Series: Carl Schlettwein Lectures - Vol. 8)
Author | : Matsime Simon Mohapi |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2011-07-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1465302832 |
Before 1994 South Africa practiced a vicious system of oppression. the divisions were clear and vivid. the enemy of the people was well defined and clear. Now let us look back at the history of our people from 1994. We are today in the democratic reign of the fourth democratic president of RSA. But still the great majority of our people has hardship and continues to suffer in agony. There is no apartheid and so who should we blame? People are unhappy and angry. This in our time is danger. People blame and hate each other as they compete for scarce government resources. People blame foreigners as the cause of their current state of suffering. People are misled to blame and attack our Councillors and other government officials. They are confused by the results and causes and by the causes and results. the time is now for you and me to make an attempt in defining the enemy of the people. Matsime Simon Mohapi, from: "Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa".
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Basic needs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abebe Zegeye |
Publisher | : Unisa Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book assesses how far South Africa has come in uprooting poverty since this pronouncement. It traces developments from the end of the apartheid economic system, that institutionalised and perpetuated poverty, and some of the highest levels of inequality in the world; to the new era, which grew out of this regime, and is characterised by black stratification, and an ever widening gap between rich and poor. The authors further consider how pressures from the global economy and domestic private sector are compounding a cruel dilemma for the State of how to manage the political costs of necessary economic reforms; but warn against failure to achieve poverty reduction required for genuine social transformation.