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Title:Differentiation and Diversification: Changing Livelihoods in Qwaqwa, South Africa, 1970-2000
Author:Slater, RachelISNI
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)
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