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Victoria Mxenge Housing Project, The
Women building communities through social activism and informal learning
S Ismail
In 1994, the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project was founded by a group of 12 women who lived in shacks on the barren outskirts of Cape Town. These women had come from rural areas and were poor, vulnerable and semi-literate. Yet they learned how to build, negotiate with the government and NGOs, architects and building experts, and form alliances with homeless social movements locally and internationally, in India and Brazil. The desolate piece of land they occupied is now a thriving, sustainable community of more than 5 000 houses. Over a period of 10 years the author tracked the history of the Victoria Mxenge Housing Association, from its start as a development organisation to its evolution into a social movement and then as a service provider. The text weaves together perspectives on ‘popular education’, or informal learning, local and traditional knowledge, experiential learning, and learning in an informal context, and illustrates how women relate to and interact with knowledge. It taps into the growing international interest in social, or ‘citizen’ learning in the context of the growth of social movements.
ECONOMICS
Greening the South African economy
Scoping the issues, challenges and opportunities
Editors: M Swilling, J Kaviti Musango & J Wakeford
When South Africa adopted the Green Economy Accord in 2009 it joined many other governments that were adopting policies to support sustainable socio- economic development through green economy investments. However, the South African economy remains reliant on the depletion of natural resources, which places great strain on the environment. The authors of this book argue that substantial greening of the economy is essential for a transition to a sustainable society. To achieve a green economy means a co-ordinated approach to making all sectors more resource-e cient, less carbon-intensive and more restorative of natural systems. It means social reconstruction to reduce poverty and inequality and create decent livelihoods and green jobs that are environmentally sustainable and socially just. It means forming new infrastructures — for electricity, transport, ecology, the urban environment and waste management. It means shifting the ows of nance. It means social activism. This book argues for a review of South Africa’s existing economic growth model. It assesses the challenges to and possibilities for a transition to a sustainable future.
2015
192 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 91989 552 9 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 168 7 World rights available R231.00 / $17.00 / £16.50 BISAC: SOC045000, SOC032000
BIC: JFFB, JNP, JFSJ
2016
496 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 069 7 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 086 4 World rights available R534.00 / $42.95 / £28.95 BISAC: BUS072000
BIC: KCN