The purpose of this study is fourfold: first, to summarise the current state of knowledge about
chronic poverty in South Africa; second, to describe the range of existing governmental and …

The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to
democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book …

[Publisher-supplied data] Relatively few people have access to antiretroviral treatment in
South Africa. The government justifies this on grounds of affordability. Nicoli Nattrass argues …

This article questions the export of 'social exclusion'discourse to the field of development
and poverty studies. It considers the findings of ongoing research into chronic poverty in the …

Many recent arguments for land reform share a central proposition concerning the relative
efficiency of small farm production. This article argues that the theoretical reasoning …

Soon after democratisation in 1994, the last vestiges of statutory racial discrimination were
removed in South Africa. But the new government inherited a society where inequality could …

The era of global flexibility has been described as one of generalised precariouness and
vulnerability. Global integration is leading to changing patterns of employment, with …

The concept of biocultural diversity, originally used to describe indigenous people and their
ways of using and managing natural resources, has more recently been applied within the …

Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial
democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict …

Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent
questions facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings of research …