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Skarreling for Scrap: a case study of informal waste recycling at the Coastal Park landfill in Cape Town
(2013)
A widespread phenomenon on dumpsites in the developing world, subsistence waste picking is also a common practice at the city-owned Coastal Park Landfill (CPL) in Muizenberg. Poor unemployed people from the townships of ...
National Health Insurance (NHI) – towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all in South Africa: a philosophical analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study is a philosophical analysis of the National Health Insurance (NHI) policy and legislation, including the related NHI Fund, with a view to assessing its prospects in realising Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The ...
The Bakkie Brigade in Cape Town’s urban waste economy: exploring waste mobilities and the precariat
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Solid waste management in South Africa is in a phase of transitioning. This transition entails
the valorisation and diversion of recyclable waste away from landfills for the creation of a new
secondary recycling economy. ...
Urban community gardens and urban justice in the Cape Flats of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Cities worldwide are undergoing neoliberal transformation processes, culminating in deep
income inequalities, erosion of public space, and the depletion of social fabric across distressed
communities. The process of ...
Being and neoliberalism: A conceptual history of the subject
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The idea of neoliberalism, as both a guiding principle for economic policy decisions and a governing rationality, is a pertinent issue of our time. The concept itself is often used to describe the contemporary mode of ...