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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Jean is a full professor in social work at the University of Johannesburg. She obtained her PhD from Saint Louis University. She has been a social work educator for 19 years and a practitioner for 15 years. Her research interests are poverty, unemployment, social security, restorative justice and social policy issues.
Previously she held positions of director of Social Security for the national Department of Social Development, and senior researcher for the Development Bank of Southern Africa. She is a Fulbright scholar and has published both nationally and internationally.
Jean Triegaardt -
The first decade of democratic dispensation in South Africa was hailed in many ways as an economic success. Macroeconomic stability was restored, the country’s debt level was reduced to internationally accepted norms, and the country attained an investment-grade credit rating. Growth was high in 2005, there were capital inflows and the rand was strong at that time. As a result of these achievements, economic growth and employment were finally beginning to increase, with observers, as...
