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| Title: | Class, Distribution and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| Authors: | Seekings, Jeremy Nattrass, Nicoli J. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 50 |
| Pages: | 1-30 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | social inequality social structure employment wealth Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transformation/v050/50.1seekings.pdf |
| Abstract: | Social and economic change has eroded the correlation between race and class in South Africa. High levels of inequality are increasingly based on intraracial not interracial inequalities. During the 1990s, there has been a shift towards higher paid, better skilled workers. Furthermore, six years into the postapartheid era, the distributional regime remains the same as it had been during the late apartheid era. But, whereas the apartheid distributional regime was premised on full employment, the postapartheid distributional regime operates in the context of high unemployment. The absence of any welfare net for the unemployed constitutes a major problem. The most striking change in South African society in the 1990s has been the accelerated growth of the black or African middle class. A reduction in inequality requires a more egalitarian and effective educational system, broader access to employment (through job creation), promotion of worker ownership, and reforms to the welfare system. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |