South African social security under apartheid and beyondFootnote¹

An earlier version of this article was first presented as a paper entitled South Africa after apartheid: A welfare state in the making? at the Society for the Advancement of Socio‐Economics (SASE) conference on ‘Rethinking the welfare state’, Montreal, 5‐7 July 1997. The article is partly based on previous work by the author in related fields, and this work is not always separately referenced in the text. The article benefited from valuable comments by a referee of this journal.

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