As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
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Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
Crisis is a given for resource-poor households globally, but — in the absence of supportive policies — so are these careful strategies of self-provisioning and mutual aid.
Millions of South Africans exchange billions of rands annually but disputes involving these transactions hardly ever appear before the country’s courts.
Unity for the wrong reasons reduces social cooperation to whatever happens to benefit a particular person or group, making it a zero-sum game.
South African commercial law courses do not address the question of what norms and procedures govern business relations in indigenous African communities.
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa should encourage the formation of cooperative thrift and credit societies to boost the development of micro enterprises.
A strong case needs to be made for the survival of community-based financial organisations. While not perfect, the sense of ownership is high.
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Associate Professor of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Economics, University of Venda
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Contract Faculty, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; SEDRD Adjunct Professor, University of Guelph
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Vasti Roodt is Associate Professor and Head of PROSPER (Promoting Social and Political Ethics Research) in the Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Colonial History, University of Victoria
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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LLD - Private Law, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town