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The continuing salience of race: Discrimination and diversity in South Africa
- J. Seekings
- Psychology
- 1 January 2008
Abstract The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa. The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under…
Growing Up in the New South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
- R. Bray, I. Gooskens, Sue Moses, L. Kahn, J. Seekings
- Psychology
- 1 July 2010
Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
- J. Seekings, N. Nattrass
- Economics
- 16 October 2017
The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli…
Poverty and Inequality after Apartheid
- J. Seekings
- Economics
- 2007
Democratic South Africa was born amidst high hopes for the reduction of income poverty and inequality from their high levels under apartheid. The reality has been disappointing: despite steady…
Democracy and distribution in highly unequal economies: the case of South Africa
- N. Nattrass, J. Seekings
- EconomicsThe Journal of Modern African Studies
- 1 September 2001
Given that incomes in South Africa are distributed very unequally, it might be expected that the establishment of representative democracy would result in the adoption of redistributive policies. Yet…
The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991
- J. Seekings
- Political Science
- 2000
The new South Africa cannot be understood without a knowledge of the history of the UDF and its role in the transition to democracy. As Professor Gail Gerhart has written, "Without the UDF, the…
The Broader Importance of Welfare Reform in South Africa
- J. Seekings
- Economics
- 1 December 2002
Abstract On the agenda for welfare reform in South Africa are proposals to expand the public provision of welfare in radical new ways. Not only does this contrast with the prevailing global trend of…
Policy, Politics and Poverty in South Africa
- J. Seekings, N. Nattrass
- Economics, Political Science
- 14 January 2014
Contents Figures And Tables Acknowledgements 1: Neo-Liberalism, Social Democracy And Poverty 1.1. The Legacy Of Poverty And The Promise Of Change 1.2. Disappointment And The Spectre Of Neo-Liberalism…
The Economy and Poverty in the Twentieth Century
- N. Nattrass, J. Seekings
- Economics, History
- 1 August 2011
The South African economy experienced substantial growth and change over the twentieth century. By the time of Union in 1910, gold mining on the Witwatersrand had already and rapidly transformed what…
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