Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete
history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and …

The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many
nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally. Social security and its articulation …

Unlike the situation in the past, when local government's role was limited to service delivery,
local government is now constitutionally mandated to play an expanded developmental role …

Names: Pellissery, Sony, 1972–editor.| Mathew, Babu, editor.| Govindjee, Avinash, editor.|
Narrain, Arvind, editor. Title: Transformative law and public policy/edited by Sony Pellissery …

In order to be able to engage meaningfully with communities, social and community work
practitioners working in this field need knowledge of useful approaches and fi techniques …

The purpose of this thesis is to critically evaluate the South African courts' role in contributing
to the radical transformation of public basic education which is mandated by the South …

South Africa's current socio-economic development blueprint, the National Development
Plan (NDP), targets achieving marked socio-economic development by 2030. This can be …

This paper represents an edited version of the authors' STIAS lecture at the Stellenbosch
University in 2014. It deals with the global human rights discourse, as the integrity of human …

Can law and policy intertwine properly, bringing together the executive, legislature and
judiciary (in democratic forms of government), as well as other state and non-state actors, in …