South Africa is currently experiencing high levels of poverty, increasing unemployment and widening social and economic gaps between the wealthy and poor of all racial groups. This study focuses on four racially demarcated areas within the capital city, Pretoria, and offers survey data and qualitative illustrations of day-to-day hardship and ordinary people's efforts to sustain the continuity of households and familial relations. Additionally, attention is paid to descriptions of health and perceptions of the post-apartheid state's commitment to transform the socio-economic existences of...

Fragmented Families addresses a central question in the demographic debates on poverty and fertility transition in southern Africa: . In what ways do women's recurrent encounters with poverty serve to shape their sexual unions, social relationships and reproductive practices? The book focuses on the lives of a group of mothers and daughters from fifteen families in a demarcated part of the Winterveld area in South Africa, and draws attention to historical, socio-cultural, political and economic concerns in order to place in context or make sense of reproductive dynamics and family life at the...

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. It integrates thinking, evidence, responses, and debates relating to this topic, laying the basis for fresh insights and innovative strategies. The chapters capture a spectrum of pertinent issues such as economic hardship, lockdowns, sexual and reproductive health, pregnancy, online sexual harassment, xenophobic violence, and micro-aggressions in school contexts, and present guidelines...