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| Title: | 'I am poor, I must start all over again': the impact of political violence on household economies |
| Author: | Bonnin, Debby |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Indicator South Africa |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 47-53 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | violence poverty female-headed households food |
| Abstract: | This article uses interview material from Mpumalanga, a township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to show the ways in which political violence has devastated household economies. Given the specific nature of the violence, women were forced to take on the position of household head. The burden of managing poverty fell onto their shoulders. Traditional methods of saving, like stokvels, no longer functioned, and traditional ways of generating incomes, like selling goods and sewing, were also curtailed. By the late 1980s the situation of many households was extremely precarious. The 1990s saw a shift in the nature of the political violence, large-scale attacks became the norm. These attacks, and the refugee status that followed, were the last nail in the poverty coffin of most households. Bibliogr., sum. (p. 8-9). |