This article examines two novels by Phaswane Mpe and Niq Mhlongo, Welcome to Our Hillbrow Dog Eat Dog, focusing on how they portray post-apartheid South African women their experiences during after the fall of apartheid. Set in early years Africa’s democracy, these can be read from a feminist perspective, which offers an opportunity investigate condition black struggle context legacies aparthei...

The primary aim of this paper is to examine whether resources accruing to different members of the household and from different sources have differential impacts on household expenditure patterns. The issue is of considerable policy interest for, if the identity of the income recipient does matter in the household’s expenditure decisions, then it indicates the usefulness of targeting income ass...

This paper explores the institutional factors behind the crisis of capital accumulation in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Because of its focus on institutional stability, the paper contributes to the literature on the existence of an apartheid social structure of accumulation in which economic and political institutions are important determinants of investment. Investment function estimat...

This paper discusses the difficulties facing the post-apartheid metropolitan government of Johannesburg as it reforms itself, seeking to better respond to the needs of all its citizens, while also attracting new investment. These difficulties include high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality as well as the apartheid legacy of “separate development” with its large backlog of poor quali...

At transition in 1994, the new South African government inherited an economy that had systematically disadvantaged most of the population. For almost a half century, Blacks1 had been subject to an intentionally second-class education, labor laws that precluded their advancement, business regulations that outlawed many forms of firm ownership, and laws that kept them from living in the metropoli...