Exploring the philosophical engagements for community economic development analytical framework for poverty alleviation in South African rural areas

Conceptualizing community economic development strategic framework for poverty alleviation: The case of Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality

“…Ndaguba and Hanyane (, , ) have demonstrated that certain trends exists that are universally utilised for poverty reduction in local context. They include, employment, social enterprise, and adequate provision of service delivered (Ndaguba et al, ).…”

“…In a preceding paper (Ndaguba & Hanyane, , p. 7), we had proposed a community economic development framework for poverty reduction in rural communities. By taking the philosophy of that argument, it is imperative that the community identifies and evaluates the state of the framework with regard the community in question, in a bid, to accelerate and understand the stage or level of development with reference to the arguments advanced in the paper for community renewal.…”

Stakeholder model for community economic development in alleviating poverty in municipalities in South Africa

“…To achieve social inclusion, policies must be geared towards local and community sustainability, community participation, and collective decision‐making; hence, such tools for localism as buy local and local investment are important (Ndaguba & Hanyane, ). In that, these are important tools that create an atmosphere for local economic development, local liberation, local freedom, and increased productivity at the grassroots levels (UNTERM, ).…”

“…These would include sustainability, participation, community based, asset based, and self‐resilience. In addition to the above‐mentioned, the following concepts are critical in this respect as localism, social transformation, social change, sustainable development, collectivism, communitarianism, among others (as seen in the CED framework–—Ndaguba & Hanyane, ).…”

“…One may argue that these strategies (the MDGs, SAP, and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)) had not produced predictable outcomes, as halving global poverty by 2015 or reducing sub‐Saharan Africa share of poverty to 25% by 2000. This is probably because poverty in South Africa (the most developed country in sub‐Saharan African countries) and the wider sub‐Saharan African region is still on the rise (Ndaguba & Hanyane, ; StatsSA, ; Ndaguba & Ijeoma, ; Beegle, Christiaensen, Dabalen, & Gaddis, ).…”