Policy, Politics and Poverty in South Africa

Seekings, Jeremy; Nattrass, Nicoli

doi:10.1057/9781137452696

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“…Financial challenges are, it seems, ubiquitous, and no doubt related to the very high levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality that continue to beleaguer South Africa (Seekings and Nattrass 2015), despite the promises of the political transformation from 1994. These massive social forces that burden the majority of South Africans, and particularly South African children and youth (Hall and Sambu 2014), have a ripple effect on all facets of society, including higher education.…”

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Students are humans too: Psychosocial vulnerability of first-year students at the University of Johannesburg

Breda

2017

SAJHE

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This article describes the life challenges university students experienced in their first year of study during the transition into academia, how these impacted on their studies at the time, and how these have impacted on their life satisfaction and academic progress over the next year or two.Data were collected using a quantitative survey instrument from 463 second and third year students at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Results showed that prevalent and severe life challenges during the first year of study were the death of loved ones and poverty. Most of the life challenges impacted negatively on academic progress and well-being a year or two later, and in combination the pileup of vulnerability in first year has a sustained negative impact on student's academic progress a year or two later. Universities need to engage with the whole student as human within their social environment, with both academic and personal development needs.

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Students are humans too: Psychosocial vulnerability of first-year students at the University of Johannesburg

Breda

2017

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“…Today, one in three South Africans, the overwhelming majority of them black, receives a direct cash transfer from the South African state in the form of a pension, a childcare grant or a disability grant. Fifty‐five per cent of South African households count at least one of these transfers as a source of income (Seekings and Nattrass ).…”

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How Well Does Theory Travel? David Garland in the Global South

Steinberg

2016

Howard J Crime Justice

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How well does theory travel? The article examines this question by exploring how David Garland's work on crime control in Britain and the United States might be used to shed light on crime control in South Africa. I argue that theory travels badly when what is transferred is not the hard work of genealogical method but the shiny concepts that are the product of somebody else's labour. Entire countries and regions appear to have come off an assembly line, each made from the same parts, each more or less resembling the next. Theory travels well when it transmits imaginative resources that inspire one's own genealogical explorations, thus giving due weight to the historical antecedents of contemporary practices.

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“…However these initiatives have been largely unsuccessful and economic diversification presents an ongoing and intractable challenge to its government, the latter now desperate to reduce its dependence on the ailing minerals sector and transform a resource-based economy to a learning economy. Path dependence remains a key determinant in the economy with relatively little change in several aspects (Seekings and Nattrass, 2015). The post-apartheid state acquired a system of actors, institutions and policies which had historically paid little attention to the key areas of human resource development and the needs of the poor; as a consequence transformation of the economy has been slow to realise (Mariotti and Fourie, 2014) and economic growth has been handicapped by a general skills shortage (Faulkner et al, 2013).…”

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Weaknesses in policy to support technology diffusion: a study of additive manufacturing in South Africa

Kunniger

Walwyn

2017

IJTLID

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The South African manufacturing sector has declined significantly as a major contributor to the economy, contracting from 21% in 1994 to 12% of Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter of 2016. The stagnation of the manufacturing sector in real terms reflects its fragility and suggests that some sort of intervention is required to prevent its impending decline. It is possible that additive manufacturing, whose global sales could reach $550 billion by 2025, may provide a solution to the problems of the sector. However, there is little information available about the adoption of additive manufacturing, or even more generally about the efficiency of innovation through doing, using and interacting, within South Africa.In this study, a mixed-method design was applied in order to determine the status of additive manufacturing within a specific geographic cluster of the country's main manufacturing province, and to identify factors that are motivating or prohibiting its uptake.

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Policy, Politics and Poverty in South Africa

Cited by 125 publications

References 97 publications

Students are humans too: Psychosocial vulnerability of first-year students at the University of Johannesburg

Students are humans too: Psychosocial vulnerability of first-year students at the University of Johannesburg

How Well Does Theory Travel? David Garland in the Global South

Weaknesses in policy to support technology diffusion: a study of additive manufacturing in South Africa

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