More to life than economics and livelihoods: The politics of social protection and social development in post-apartheid South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorCole, Josette
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T09:43:37Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T09:43:37Z
dc.date.issued2009-03
dc.description.abstractIn the past fifteen years the South African government has consistently tried to address chronic and structural poverty, using a variety of policy and programmatic interventions with uneven success. But, as the latest Presidential review (2008) confirms, out of all attempts thus far, it appears that the social grant system, now reaching more than 12 million South African citizens, has made the greatest impact on income poverty reduction. While this achievement needs to be applauded as a measurable indicator of our government's political commitment to reduce poverty, it is also signals other realities. Firstly, that despite the state's intentions of becoming more 'developmental', South Africa appears to have evolved into a "quasi- welfare" state, with millions of its citizens dependent on social grants and a social wage for survival; and, secondly, that this tells us that something may be fundamentally wrong with the overall way in which we have approached improving the quality of life for all South African citizens, including the poor.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCole, J. (2009). ‘More to life than economics and livelihoods: The politics of social protection and social development in post-apartheid South Africa’, Working Paper 13. PLAAS, UWC, Cape Town.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4471
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper;13
dc.subjectPost-apartheiden_US
dc.subjectSocial protectionen_US
dc.subjectSocial developmenten_US
dc.subjectStructural povertyen_US
dc.subjectSocial granten_US
dc.titleMore to life than economics and livelihoods: The politics of social protection and social development in post-apartheid South Africaen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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