The 1980s in South Africa have witnessed an extraordinary interest by health care professionals in the relevance of health care and healing systems outside the dominant biomedical system. The debate centres around the most effective way of incorporating "these other forms" of healing into the...

This book tries to provide a coherent analysis of the nature and causes of poverty in South Africa which is endured by so many blacks in a society whose whites have been one of the most affluent groups in the world. Tackling head on the fact that in South Africa's poverty is a profundly...