A Policy Agenda for Post-Apartheid South Africa (Introduction)

Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Post - Apartheid South Africa :

* The work reported here is the outcome of a collaborative project between researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the University of Natal, and the University of Wisconsin. In addition to support from these three institutions, the following provided financial support: the United States Agency for International Development (Office of Women in Development – Grant ...

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION Lessons from post-apartheid South Africa

The South African post-apartheid constitution provides for community participation in the construction, implementation and evaluation of integrated development planning at local level. This article reviews and assesses community participation in practice drawing on the findings of a range of research projects conducted in Cape Town since 1994. It is argued that contemporary understanding of com...

Unemployment, Education and Skills Constraints in Post-Apartheid South Africa

This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in postapartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that that these aggregate trends mask substantial variation among ...

“growing Old Gracefully?”: Ageing in Post-apartheid South Africa

Civilizing the natives: marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa.