scholarly journals Gender, rights and the disability grant in South Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Disability Grant

scholarly journals Disability Grant: a precarious lifeline for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veloshnee Govender ◽  
Jana Fried ◽  
Stephen Birch ◽  
Natsayi Chimbindi ◽  
Susan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Relative poverty in female disability grant recipients in South Africa

De Jure ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yvette Basson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Relative Poverty ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Established Fact ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Economic Position

It is a well-established fact that adequate social security measures are used as a tool to allow persons a measure of financial security and support in the event of certain contingencies. Historically, disability has been one of the "core" contingencies, which is covered by social security schemes. The purpose of social security in providing for this contingency is to compensate for income lost or reduced as a result of disability. The fact that more women in South Africa have disabilities than men leads to the conclusion that women with disabilities are more negatively affected by poverty than men with disabilities. This in turn makes a woman with a disability more likely to be dependent on the disability grant than a man with a disability. The link between gender, disability and poverty will be discussed to illustrate the socio-economic position of female disability grant recipients in comparison to male disability grant recipients. This article will address the relative poverty of female disability grant recipients and make recommendations to address this relative poverty.

Disability, cash transfers and family practices in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-559
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Kelly
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Household Dynamics ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Care Outcomes ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Household Members

Relative to other low and middle-income countries, South Africa provides a generous set of cash transfers (social grants) targeted at people with disabilities. This article explores the influence of disability-related grants on family practices and configurations, care arrangements and household composition in the Western Province of South Africa. The article draws on the findings of two studies: 1) an ethnographic study of disability grant recipients and applicants in a low-income Cape Town community and; 2) a study of interactions between healthcare staff, disability grant applicants and their families. Findings show that disability grant income is shared within households and the contribution of a stable income provides opportunities for people with disabilities to exercise agency, be seen as valuable household members and secure care and support from other household members. However, conflicts may arise over how income is shared and may lead to the extortion, abuse and neglect of people with disabilities, particularly in cases of severe disablement. Given the lack of adequate social provisioning for those who are able-bodied and unemployed, disability also becomes highly valued in households and the potential suspension or cancellation of a grant can interfere with adherence to treatment. The study emphasises the influence of policy structures and economic conditions on household dynamics and care outcomes and contributes to the sparse international evidence-base on the role that disability welfare benefits play in household dynamics and care outcomes.

Who gets the disability grant in South Africa? An analysis of the characteristics of recipients in urban and rural areas

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 1139-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jelsma ◽  
Soraya Maart ◽  
Arne Eide ◽  
Mzolisi Toni ◽  
Mitch Loeb
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

scholarly journals Disability profile of grant recipients in a semi-rural area in South Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
A. Frieg ◽  
J. A. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Permanent Disability ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Prevention Programmes ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
The Mean

A descriptive study was undertaken to establish, amongst others, the demographic details and the disability profile of a group of persons with disabilities who collected their disability grant at the Kleinmond Post Office in June 1999. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire during face-to-face interviews with the grantees and/or their proxies. A questionnaire developed for this purpose included a disability catalogue based on the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH). The repeatability of the questionnaire was 96%.The mean age of the mainly male grantees was 42 years (range: 18-64).Nearly a third of the subjects had been disabled since birth, reinforcing the importance of disability prevention programmes as outlined in several policy documents. Most persons with disabilities had problems with activities in the situational disability category (82% or 24/29), while only a few reported personal care disabilities (34% or 10/29).The majority of the grantees (86% or 25/29) reported disabilities in more than one category. This may be an indication that only persons with multiple disabilities qualify for permanent disability grants in South Africa.

Disability Grant for People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape of South Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya ◽  
Karl Peltzer ◽  
George Petros
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

‘THE GRANT IS WHAT I EAT’: THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND DISABILITY IN THE POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICAN STATE

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAYLEY MACGREGOR
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Security ◽  
South African ◽  
African State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Health Citizenship ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Grant Allocation ◽  
The One

In South Africa, disability grant allocation has been under review and tensions are evident in government rhetoric stressing welfare provision on the one hand, and encouraging ‘rationalization’ on the other. This ambiguity is traced down to the level of grant negotiations between doctors and ‘clients’ in a psychiatry clinic in Khayelitsha. Here ‘having nerves’ embodies the distress associated with harsh circumstances and is deemed by supplicants as sufficient to secure a grant. The paper illustrates how national discourses influence the presentation and experience of suffering and the way in which doctors mediate diagnoses. The implications of local understandings of ‘health citizenship’ for expectations of the post-apartheid state are explored.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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