“From RDP to Gear to Post-Polokwane”. The Anc and the Provision of Social Security for Post-Apartheid South Africa

Visser, Wessel

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“…Two years after pursuing its Reconstruction and Development Program (ANC, 1994), an economic strategy of ‘growth through redistribution’, the ANC abandoned it in favour of market-driven macroeconomic policy that favoured the interests of international capital and the aspirations of the new black elite (Visser, 2009). A new focus on fiscal restraint and trimming the civil service led to shortfalls in the institutional capacity of government departments, with a resultant impact on service delivery (Michie and Padayachee, 1998) in the crucial years after 1994.…”

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‘Health psychology’ or ‘psychology for health’? A history of psychologists’ engagement with health in South Africa

Yen

Vaccarino

2017

J Health Psychol

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In contrast to the institutionalization of health psychology in North America and Europe, much psychological work on health issues in South Africa emerged as part of a critical revitalization of South African psychology as a whole, coinciding with the dismantling of Apartheid and global shifts in health discourse. The field's development reflects attempts to engage with urgent health problems in the context of rapid sociopolitical changes that followed democratic transition in the 1990s, and under new conditions of knowledge production. We provide an account of these issues, as well as reflections on the field's future, as inflected through the experiences of 12 South African psychologists whose careers span the emergence of health-related psychology to the present day.

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Section: Methods For An Oral Historymentioning

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‘Health psychology’ or ‘psychology for health’? A history of psychologists’ engagement with health in South Africa

Yen

Vaccarino

2017

J Health Psychol

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“…The difference between white and African disability grants decreased from 7:1 (R28:R4) in 1965/6 to 1.2:1 (R354:R293) in /1993(Race Relations Survey 1991in Lawrence, 1992. By 1990 white people accounted for only 23 percent of welfare spending, whilst coloured and Indian people received 24 percent and black people 52 percent (Kruger, 1992;Terreblanche, 2003;Van der Walt, 2000in Visser, 2004. In 1991 the government made commitments to parity in terms of the Social Pensions Act 37 of 1973.…”

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Regulating access to the disability grant in South Africa, 1990-2013 (WP 332)

Kelly¹

2013

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Disability is a universally difficult concept to define and assess for social assistance and social insurance purposes and these benefits have proven difficult to administer internationally because of ambiguities present in the process of determining the employability of people with physical impairments. In post-apartheid South Africa, disability grants (DGs) have proved especially difficult to regulate because of the added complexities of high levels of structural unemployment and poverty, an HIV epidemic and a social security system which does not cater adequately for all groups in need of support. The paper identifies three periods in the state's attempts to improve DG administration through legislative and regulatory measures since 1990: 1) a period of extending access and overcoming administrative barriers, supported by a socio-economic rights discourse; 2) a period of growth and generous access, resulting in growing concern about over-generosity and fiscal sustainability; 3) a period of action or 'rationalisation' in which the state places new limits on access to the grants, leading to decline in the number of social grant recipients. Common to all three periods are numerous and ongoing problems in the disability assessment process. These exist because disability is a complex, multi-dimensional concept, which is difficult and expensive to properly assess, especially in a context of high demand and significant resource limitations within the healthcare system.

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“From RDP to Gear to Post-Polokwane”. The Anc and the Provision of Social Security for Post-Apartheid South Africa

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

‘Health psychology’ or ‘psychology for health’? A history of psychologists’ engagement with health in South Africa

‘Health psychology’ or ‘psychology for health’? A history of psychologists’ engagement with health in South Africa

Regulating access to the disability grant in South Africa, 1990-2013 (WP 332)

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