Politics of pension sharing in urban South Africa

Ageing and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 393-416

  Sagner, Andreas ^a   Mtati, Raymond Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Khayelitsha Site B   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cape Town; Culture; Family; Kinship; Morality; Older people; Pension; Reciprocity; South Africa; State

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; PENSION SYSTEM; SOCIAL SECURITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032880609     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X99007424     Document Type: Article

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