Centring the intersection of race, class, and gender when a customary marriage ends

Moore, Elena; Himonga, Chuma

doi:10.1080/10130950.2017.1357375

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“…The state lacked the means or will to enforce the kinship obligations that were supposedly recognised under both civil and customary law; it was up to individuals to bring cases, for example claims for child maintenance or compensation for road accidents. Even customary law reforms built on the legal protections offered to white citizens under apartheid (Moore and Himonga, 2016). The core architecture of the welfare and care regime in post-apartheid South Africa in the 2010s thus remained what it had been for white citizens prior to apartheid, 75 or so years before.…”

Section: Deracialising the Provision Of Carementioning

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South Africa’s hybrid care regime: The changing and contested roles of individuals, families and the state after apartheid

2018

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The post-apartheid state in South Africa inherited a care regime that historically combined liberal, social democratic and conservative features. The post-apartheid state has sought to deracialise the care regime, through extending to the African majority the privileges that hitherto had been largely confined to the white minority, and to transform it, to render it more appropriate to the needs and norms of the African majority. Deracialisation proved insufficient and transformation too limited to address inequalities in access to care. Reform also generated tensions, including between a predominant ideology that accords women and children rights as autonomous individuals, the widespread belief in kinship obligations and an enduring if less widespread conservative, patriarchal ideology. Ordinary people must navigate between the market (if they can afford it), the state and the family, balancing opportunities for independence with the claims made on and by kin. The care regime thus remains a contested hybrid.

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Section: Deracialising the Provision Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%