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Book SynopsisExplains why poverty has persisted in South Africa. Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass demonstrate who has and who has not remained poor, how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and how and why these policies were adopted.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: glances briefly at the nature of poverty in the colonial and pre-colonial past; Chapter 2: considers how racialised patterns of poverty were established around a set of key institutions and practices: labour migrancy, segregated cities, the colour bar, and white political power; Chapter 3: examines the changing faces of poverty among black South Africans during the first half of the 20th century; Colin Bundy is one of South Africa's foremost historians and the former Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. His books include The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry and three Jacana pocketbooks, biographies of Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki and Short-changed? South Africa since Apartheid; Chapter 4: reviews some startling changes in the nature of poverty during the four decades of apartheid; Chapter 5: explores the responses of successive ANC governments to an inherited legacy of mass poverty rooted in mass unemployment; Finally, Chapter 6: asks what policy options are available to any South African government trying to reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality.
