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Research outputs: SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL ATTITUDES SURVEY (SASAS)
2010 Affirmative action
Since its introduction 12 years ago, affirmative action has become an increasingly controversial policy to address labour market inequalitie...
2010 Social assistance and dependency in South Africa: an analysis of attitudes to paid work and social grants
Despite the absence of an unemployment grant in South Africa, there is growing concern that other social assistance provision might neverthe...
2008 Age of hope or anxiety?: dynamics of the fear of crime in South Africa
The fear of crime has a negative impact on quality of life at the individual, community and societal levels. This phenomenon, which tends t...
Download this report2007 No evidence of a dependency culture in South Africa
The roots of this debate go back many centuries to notions of the 'undeserving poor' entrenched in pre-welfare state Britain. However, the m...
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