| dc.description.abstract | Remarkable progress has been made in South Africa since the transition from Apartheid to a democracy. Despite this, socio-economic challenges persist, and poverty remains a major problem in post-apartheid South Africa. Considerable efforts have been undertaken by the government to alleviate poverty among the people of South Africa by implementing various policies and programmes. Unfortunately, the nature of these programmes has not demonstrated a large impact on changing poverty holistically and on a sustained basis as the extent of poverty is still very different across provinces. When trying to understand the nature and extent of poverty, many local studies focus on the money-metric approach to measuring poverty. However, poverty is a multidimensional concept hence, this thesis will concentrate on measuring multidimensional non-money-metric poverty levels and trends. By applying the fuzzy sets approach, this thesis aims to determine how poverty levels and trends of non-money-metric poverty in South Africa have changed between 1996 and 2016. After which the Western Cape and Eastern Cape will be compared by investigating the differences in multidimensional poverty levels and trends between the two provinces. The data utilized are the 10% sample Censuses of 1996, 2001 and 2011 as well as the Community Surveys of 2007 and 2016. | en_US |
