Description
HSRC Seminar: Township Economy
4 August 2020
Online seminar
Overview: Book launch - Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the third decade of Africa’s democracy and draws on evidence collected from 2010-2018 in 10 township sites, nine in South Africa and one in Namibia. The book focuses on micro-enterprises, the business strategies of township entrepreneurs and the impact of autonomous informal economic activities on urban life.
Presenters:
Dr Andrew Charman, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation NPC
Dr Leif Petersen, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation NPC; Extraordinary Senior Lecturer Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), UWC
Thireshen Govender, Graduate School of Architecture, UJ and UrbanWorks
Prof. Ivan Turok, HSRC
Chair:
Dr Vimal Ranchhod, School of Economics, UCT
Book: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/township-economy-people-spaces-and-practices
For more information and seminar presentations: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/events/seminars/township-economy
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