- Title
- Children's grants and social security communities in the Eastern Cape: the case of Nqabarha administrative area
- Creator
- Mwangolela, Tafadzwa Fungayi
- Subject
- Children -- Services for -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Finance
- Subject
- Grants-in-aid
- Subject
- Social security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Food security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (Rural Development)
- Identifier
- vital:11946
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1005990
- Identifier
- Children -- Services for -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Finance
- Identifier
- Grants-in-aid
- Identifier
- Social security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Food security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- This study examines the impact of children’s grants on household access to food, education and health care. In the face of increased poverty and socio-economic inequalities, social grants are a critical poverty alleviation intervention implemented by the government of South Africa. The children’s grants are offered as part of the social security system which is provided for in the Republic of South Africa Constitution of 1996 and the Social Assistance Act of 2004. The basic needs conceptual framework is the lens informing the focus of the study. Among other major findings, the study reveals that (a) childrens grants play a critical role in improvement of access to food, health care and education, (b) childrens grants are used as collateral, to access short term loans, and (c) social networks and home gardens play a significant role in aiding children’s grants to ensure household access to food, education and health care.
- Format
- 65 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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