Inequality in South Africa

Lehohla, Pali; Shabalala, Nozipho

doi:10.1057/dev.2015.33

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“…Average household income is only one third of that of urban areas. Traditional settlement areas are over-represented in pockets of poverty (Lehohla and Shabalala 2014). During the apartheid era, traditional settlement areas were deprived of development opportunities and (mis)used as sleeping villages for low wage-low skills labour.…”

Section: Youth Unemploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Building back fairer from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: Some first step reforms in an era of fiscal constraints

Arndt¹,

Davies²,

Gabriel³

et al. 2021

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As the chapters in this book demonstrate, many economic policy choices entail trade-offs, in which some group experiences a short-term loss in order for others, or the country as a whole, to benefit. In South Africa's case, many of the trade-offs needed most urgently to create growth will on balance benefit poorer households. 8The increasing convergence of inflation expectations to the inflation target and an increase in the credibility of the SARB is consistently shown across the literature (Miyajima and Yetman 2018; Kabundi and Mlachila 2018; Chen and Creamer 2019).

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Section: Youth Unemploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, public services were of low quality. According to the 2011 census, the 10 poorest municipalities were located in former homelands, which are typically traditional settlement areas (Lehohla and Shabalala 2014). More than a quarter of the South African population lives in such territories.…”

Section: Youth Unemploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building back fairer from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: Some first step reforms in an era of fiscal constraints

Arndt¹,

Davies²,

Gabriel³

et al. 2021

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“…Thus, Maharajh's economic history of racial capitalism documents the racial economic disparities that contemporary neoliberal South Africa has inherited from its apartheid past (Maharajh, 2011). Class inequalities are literally inscribed into the landscape-as in, for example, Lehohla and Shabalala's account of the social, economic, and spatial inequalities that are the legacy of 50 years of apartheid and 300 years of colonial rule in Africa (Lehohla & Shabalala, 2014).…”

Section: Reflections On Class and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonialism and its legacies, as reflected in water, incorporating a view from Malawi

Mathur

Mulwafu

2018

WIREs Water

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Continued, accelerating water inequalities and conflicts in the postcolonial world cannot be properly grasped without a thorough understanding of colonialism and its legacies. At the same time, water as a resource provides an immensely useful lens for understanding the intricacies and the dynamics of the colonial and postcolonial eras, in general terms, and in the particular historical instance of Malawi examined here. This essay draws on a range of literatures—social theory, political ecology, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, and so on—to demonstrate that struggles over water and other natural resources in the postcolonial world are situated within wider global structures and relationships of power. Starting with a discussion of theoretical approaches to water, the essay goes on to examine the processes of state formation in Sub‐Saharan Africa, and explore the intersectionality of the contemporary lived experience of class, gender, race, and ethnicity in this region. It ends with a consideration of social differentiation, land tenure, degradation of water resources and natural resource conflict in Malawi. Traversing across humanities and social science disciplines, this essay uses water as a means of cutting a path through world historical questions on the articulations between the global and the local in the present era. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented

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“…Income inequality is especially apparent in the spatial segregation across South African urban areas. Policies such as the Group Areas Act and the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act of 1953 legalized a system of racial separation (Lehohla and Shabalala, ). The legacy of this system persists today.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The apartheid government organized urban areas so that black, poor communities were farthest away while the white population resided closer to the city centre and its amenities. The Colored racial group – people of mixed‐race with a distinct amalgam of cultural ancestry from the indigenous South African communities, Europe, and Asia (Newman and De Lannoy, ) – and the racially classified Indians would historically occupy townships somewhere in between these two points from the city centre (Lehohla and Shabalala, ). This pattern has perpetuated economic disparity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Breaking Boundaries: Exploring the Process of Intersective Market Activity of Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Context of High Economic Inequality

Griffin-El

Olabisi

2017

J Management Studies

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We explore immigrant entrepreneurship using structuration theory to understand how migrant-led venture creation conducts socially-intersective market activity in the host country of high economic inequality and social exclusion. Applying Gidden's structuration theory to immigrant entrepreneurship (1994), we unravel the co-evolutionary process of both the entrepreneurial agent and the social structure of the host country via three phases of venture creation. We collected and examined original and longitudinal empirical data of eight South African-based immigrant entrepreneurs using a process-oriented theory-building approach. Our findings unveil a process by which home and host institutions shape immigrant entrepreneurial agency to identify non-ethnic business opportunities and to form relationships across diverse actors that counter existing norms of intergroup segregation and hostility. The process illustrates how an immigrant's social orientation to his/her host country's structure changes over time, and symbiotically, how the immigrant entrepreneur's actions -which break socially constructed boundaries -also change the social structure.

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Inequality in South Africa

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Building back fairer from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: Some first step reforms in an era of fiscal constraints

Building back fairer from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: Some first step reforms in an era of fiscal constraints

Colonialism and its legacies, as reflected in water, incorporating a view from Malawi

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring the Process of Intersective Market Activity of Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Context of High Economic Inequality

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