Type | Book Section - Part IV The labour market, distribution, and social policy: Chapter 36 Migration and remittances in South Africa |
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy |
Author(s) | |
Edition | 1 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2022 |
Page numbers | 777-799 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Country/State | USA |
URL | https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uoct/detail.action?docID=6802234 |
Abstract | The economic base of rural South Africans is surprisingly low, because there is high inequality at a national level within and between racial groups. Although apartheid ended in 1994, the rural areas constituted as former 'Bantustans', remain home to the country's most socio-economically deprived populations. Migration patterns did not change radially and the manner expected when apartheid ended. Temporary migration, mostly for labour, has persisted as a migration stream linking rural and urban areas and mines. |