Child protection and resilience in the face of COVID-19 in South Africa: A rapid review of C-19 legislation

A Fouché, DF Fouché, LC Theron - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2020 - Elsevier
Background & purpose In response to the COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic, the South African
government instituted strict lockdown and related legislation. Although this response was …

Rural–urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa

J Visagie, I Turok - Area Development and Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Like most governments around the world, the South African government adopted a uniform,
place-blind response to the coronavirus pandemic, including a hard lockdown. New …

Social assistance amidst the COVID‐19 epidemic in South Africa: a policy assessment

H Bhorat, M Oosthuizen… - South African Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In an attempt to minimise the negative economic impacts of COVID‐19 on vulnerable
households the South African government allocated R50 billion in additional social …

COVID-19 amplifies urban inequalities

I Turok, J Visagie - South African Journal of Science, 2021 - scielo.org.za
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has had asymmetrical spatial impacts across South Africa. New
evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study: Coronavirus Rapid Mobile (NIDS …

The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability

C Pahl-Wostl, ON Odume, G Scholz… - Ecosystems and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Path-breaking transformative change is needed in human-environment relations to move
towards more sustainable development trajectories at local, national and global scales …

Responding to COVID-19 in South Africa–social solidarity and social assistance

L Jamieson, L Van Blerk - Children's Geographies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In South Africa, the first stringent COVID-19 lockdown led to joblessness,
poverty and isolation from protective social networks stripping many families of the …

COVID-19 risk perceptions and depressive symptoms in South Africa: Causal evidence in a longitudinal and nationally representative sample

A Oyenubi, AW Kim, U Kollamparambil - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Studies worldwide have highlighted the acute and long-term depressive
impacts of psychosocial stressors due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …

Failing to pull together: South Africa's troubled response to COVID-19

W Naudé, M Cameron - Transforming Government: People, Process …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to provide a country case study of South Africa's response during
the first six months following its first COVID-19 case. The focus is on the government's (mis-) …

The divergent pathways of the pandemic within South African cities

I Turok, J Visagie - Development Southern Africa, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The coronavirus pandemic has had devastating effects on urban lives and livelihoods
throughout the world. A major concern in the global North has been the hollowing out of …

Mainstreaming poverty, inequality and social exclusion: A systematic assessment of public policy in South Africa

S Plagerson - Development Southern Africa, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Many developing countries experience high levels of poverty and inequality. The South
African Constitution and the National Development Plan 2030 establish poverty, inequality …