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Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is
the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and
poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all.
The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South
African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality
extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the
quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic
outcomes and bringing devastating environmental consequences in
their wake. Contributors survey the extent and consequences of
inequality across fields as diverse as education, disability,
agrarian reform, nuclear geography and small towns, and tackle some
of the most difficult social, political and economic issues. How
has the quest for greater equality affected progressive political
discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite best
intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the poor and the
historically disadvantaged? How have shifts in mining and the
financialisation of the economy reshaped the contours of
inequality? How does inequality reach into the daily social life of
South Africans, and shape the way in which they interact? How does
the extent and shape of inequality in South Africa compare with
that of other major countries of the global South which themselves
are notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South
African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality
globally, and The Crisis of Inequality will speak to all those -
general readers, policy makers, researchers and students - who are
demanding a more equal world.
As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa,
the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from
One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork,
it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse.
That they keep going at all can largely be attributed to the
struggles of older women against poverty. They are the fulcrum on
which household survival turns. This book describes how households
in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal are sites of both stability
and conflict. As one of the interviewees put it: 'We eat from one
pot and should always help each other.' Yet the stability of family
networks is becoming fragile because of the enormous burden placed
on them by unemployment and unequal power relations. Through
careful analysis, the experiences of survival are discussed in
relation to the restructuring of the country's welfare and social
policies, and the extension of social grants. Mosoetsa argues that
these policies shape the livelihoods that people pursue in order to
survive under desperate conditions, but fail to address the root
causes of poverty and inequality.
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