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| Title: | Differentiation and Diversification: Changing Livelihoods in Qwaqwa, South Africa, 1970-2000 |
| Author: | Slater, Rachel |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | September |
| Pages: | 599-614 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | rural development rural society household budget household income rural households Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/823433 |
| Abstract: | The documentation and analysis of the impacts of agrarian change and population displacement on the livelihoods of black South Africans under apartheid have occupied a central place in empirical research on South Africa. The country's transition to democracy and associated institutional and socioeconomic transformations raise new questions about changing livelihoods in rural areas. This paper shows how patterns of differentiation emerged in the 1970s but then changed in the 1990s. It analyses processes of differentiation in Qwaqwa, Free State Province, in order to contribute to an understanding of the challenges faced by people in South Africa's former 'homelands'. The paper focuses both on the important economic, political and institutional changes that have taken place in one region of South Africa and on the particular household circumstances and social relations that affect livelihoods. Using evidence from the life histories of Qwaqwa residents, it demonstrates the complexity of livelihood diversification and ordinary people's attempts to alleviate risk and insecurity. Notes, ref., sum. (Journal abstract) |
