Risk and benefit as functions of savings and loan clubs: an examination of the importance of rotating credit associations for poor women in Rhini
- Authors: Buijs, Gina
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Africans -- Economic conditions Rhini (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- Social conditions Savings and loan associations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Savings and loan associations -- South Africa Urban poor -- South Africa Women -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Economic conditions Women -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Black people -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2498 , vital:20298
- Description: Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, 25th April 1995: This paper examines the implications of risk taking in the context of rotating credit associations popular among poor women in Rhini. Mary Douglas notes that in the 19th century when the theory of risk taking became important in economics, humans were thought to be risk averse because they chose according to a pleasure calculus. In the 18th century the idea of risk was neutral: it took account of the probability of gains and losses. The concept originally emerged in the 17th century in the context of gambling. Risk then means the probability of an event occurring, combined with the magnitude of the losses and gains which would be entailed. She comments (1992:31) that the evaluation of the outcome is a political, aesthetic and moral matter. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1995
- Authors: Buijs, Gina
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Africans -- Economic conditions Rhini (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- Social conditions Savings and loan associations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Savings and loan associations -- South Africa Urban poor -- South Africa Women -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Economic conditions Women -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Black people -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2498 , vital:20298
- Description: Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, 25th April 1995: This paper examines the implications of risk taking in the context of rotating credit associations popular among poor women in Rhini. Mary Douglas notes that in the 19th century when the theory of risk taking became important in economics, humans were thought to be risk averse because they chose according to a pleasure calculus. In the 18th century the idea of risk was neutral: it took account of the probability of gains and losses. The concept originally emerged in the 17th century in the context of gambling. Risk then means the probability of an event occurring, combined with the magnitude of the losses and gains which would be entailed. She comments (1992:31) that the evaluation of the outcome is a political, aesthetic and moral matter. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1995
The collapse of the 'tribal authority' system and the rise of civic organisations
- Manona, Cecil Wele, Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Authors: Manona, Cecil Wele , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
- Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1995
- Authors: Manona, Cecil Wele , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
- Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1995
Gender, households and environmental changes in informal settlements in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Manona, Cecil Wele, Bank, Leslie John, Higginbottom, Karen
- Authors: Manona, Cecil Wele , Bank, Leslie John , Higginbottom, Karen
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Economic conditions Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Environmental health -- South Africa Environmental impact statements -- South Africa Environmental policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Household supplies -- South Africa Households -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1821 , vital:20230 , ISBN 0868103020
- Description: In recent years the number of people living in informal or 'squatter' settlements in South Africa has mushroomed and virtually every small town or city has one or more squatter settlements associated with it, often next door to the formal residential areas. Using field data collected from 1993 in two informal settlements in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa this study examines, firstly, the ways in which men and women in these communities organise their lives in their households and in the wider society. Secondly, it assesses the physical environment of informal settlements where there is a lack of service infrastructure, especially water, sewerage facilities, refuse removal and roads. Also, it was assumed that the presence of large numbers of people in an informal settlement has a deleterious effect on natural resources like the soil, wood, vegetation and water and that this may have a significant contribution to environmental pollution and degradation. This aspect was also examined. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1995
- Authors: Manona, Cecil Wele , Bank, Leslie John , Higginbottom, Karen
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Economic conditions Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Environmental health -- South Africa Environmental impact statements -- South Africa Environmental policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Household supplies -- South Africa Households -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1821 , vital:20230 , ISBN 0868103020
- Description: In recent years the number of people living in informal or 'squatter' settlements in South Africa has mushroomed and virtually every small town or city has one or more squatter settlements associated with it, often next door to the formal residential areas. Using field data collected from 1993 in two informal settlements in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa this study examines, firstly, the ways in which men and women in these communities organise their lives in their households and in the wider society. Secondly, it assesses the physical environment of informal settlements where there is a lack of service infrastructure, especially water, sewerage facilities, refuse removal and roads. Also, it was assumed that the presence of large numbers of people in an informal settlement has a deleterious effect on natural resources like the soil, wood, vegetation and water and that this may have a significant contribution to environmental pollution and degradation. This aspect was also examined. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1995
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