Women in poverty: experience from Limpopo province, South Africa
SOURCE: African Research Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Kongolo
KEYWORDS: LIMPOPO PROVINCE, POVERTY, WOMEN
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5724
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4977
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4977
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Kongolo
KEYWORDS: LIMPOPO PROVINCE, POVERTY, WOMEN
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5724
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4977
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4977
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
This study focuses on the extent of African women poverty level including poverty reduction strategies used in South Africa. The scope of this study was broadened to include poverty-related issues focusing on the current patterns of poverty and inequality affecting African women. African women related poverty problems in the study area, was documented in a comprehensive manner from the point of view of financial, human, institutional, administrative and resource constraints on the part of governmental and non-governmental organizations. The findings suggested that past, current and planned policies could serve as lessons in dealing with exacerbated African women overall poverty in the province.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Women, culture and inequality: human rights and the feminisation of poverty in South Africa
- Trends and policy challenges in the rural economy: four provincial case studies
- The state of poverty and human development in Limpopo Province
- Experience of abuse among women in a rural subdistrict of Limpopo province, South Africa
- Women, water and workers in southern Africa: survey of attitudes of women trade unionists in the public sector in southern Africa, 30 July 2008
- What can a woman do with a camera?: turning the female gaze on poverty and HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa
- Urbanization & women's economic exclusion
- More work for women: a rights-based analysis of women's access to basic services in South Africa
- Gender and rurality in southern African contexts: an introduction
- "For us women, working is an unfulfilled dream": womens' wage work and food security
- African vegetables and food security for poor agrarian households in Limpopo province: effective but neglected indigenous knowledge under threat
- Programmes and strategies targeting gender and poverty reduction in South Africa: a case study of three service departments
- Psychological and physical co-morbidity among urban South African women
- Women in leadership and politics: capacity building workshop for speakers of local and district municipalities, Limpopo province
- Women in selected rural municipalities: resilience and agency against vulnerabilities to climate change
- "Upping the game?":a response to the WIPHOLD CSR initiative
- Exemplary schools in South Africa: schools serving poor communities but achieving success against all odds
- Poverty and its manifestation in South Africa
- Academic performance of orphaned primary school learners aged between eight and ten in Mankweng Circuit: Limpopo province, South Africa
- Status of informal settlements targeted for upgrading: implications for policy and impact evaluation