Social Work and Social Welfare in Lesotho

Manyeli, Tšepang Florence

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“…South Africa is said to have the most expansive welfare system in Southern Africa, with its roots in the apartheid era (Seekings, 2019. In the wake of the advent of democracy, the country adopted a social development approach to social welfare and has more than 20 million recipients (Noyoo, Seepamore, Ncube & Sobantu, 2021). Manyeli (2007; states that Lesotho's welfare system has been gradually developing since its independence to where it currently has fully adopted the social development approach and spends over 6% of its GDP on social security. Similarly, Botswana has established a significant welfare programme in the region, offering a wide array of programmes with extensive coverage (Seekings, 2019).…”

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Social Development in Southern Africa in the Wake of Covid-19

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2024

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Modern capitalism has shaped the world, but for many scholars, its principles have disproportionately favoured the prosperity of a minority while neglecting the prospects of the majority, particularly in Southern Africa. The recent COVID-19 pandemic combined with significant inequalities of wealth has put the social policies of countries in Southern Africa to the test. It exposed the inadequacies of the current capitalist order in many countries in the global south, hindering their ability to protect their populations from the pandemic’s impact. In contrast, the global north, with stronger social policies and economic flexibility, managed to cushion the severity of pandemic’s economic impact on their populations in many ways, even though they suffered the most deaths. In this article, I establish how COVID-19 and neoliberal capitalism made it difficult to achieve the social developmental objectives in Southern Africa. While scholars have documented the medical and economic harms caused by the pandemic, I highlight ways that it, along with considerable inequalities of wealth, impaired social development more broadly. I conclude by establishing how the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the shortcomings of neoliberal capitalism in Southern Africa’s social policies, emphasising the need for re-evaluating and re-alignment of these policies to foster more equitable and resilient societies. Keywords: capitalism, COVID-19, social development, social policy, Southern Africa, sovereign welfare fund

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Social Development in Southern Africa in the Wake of Covid-19

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Social Work and Social Welfare in Lesotho

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