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Title:Intergenerational Family Care: Legacy of the Past, Implications for the Future
Author:Burman, SandraISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:22
Issue:4
Period:December
Pages:585-598
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:apartheid
townships
care of the aged
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Cultural Roles
Family Life
Women and Their Children
Sex Roles
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637158
Abstract:In 1987 the Socio-Legal Unit at the University of Cape Town investigated care by and of the elderly in the African townships around the city, and from 1992-1994 it undertook a similar study in several lower-income coloured townships. The first study revealed the particular but often hidden impact on elderly Africans of apartheid legislation in its many aspects, frequently as a consequence of their child-care functions. Both Africans and coloureds were affected in unforeseen ways by group areas legislation, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and its residual consequences, and the differential provision of relevant services: health, housing, educational and recreational facilities, and pension payments. The data highlighted the very different effects apartheid had on child care and the position of the elderly in the African and coloured communities, owing particularly in Cape Town to the operation of the Coloured Labour Preference Area policy and the different controls on housing allocation by separate authorities. As well as the immediate consequences for household patterns, the paper traces the long-term implications for mutual family support and for care of the elderly. In addition, in looking to the interface between family care and necessary State provision in a future South Africa, the article spells out some of the consequences for future welfare arrangements by the State. Notes, ref., sum.
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