Explaining the demand for private health care in South Africa
- Authors: Mhlanga, David , Ndhlovu, Emmanuel
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Demand , Determinants , General Household
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/488609 , uj:44518 , Citation: Mhlanga, D., Ndhlovu, E., 2021. Explaining the demand for private health care in South Africa.
- Description: Abstract: This article investigates the determinants of demand for private health care in South Africa using the 2018 general household data to influence related policy interventions. The data reveal that approximately 75 per cent of households in South Africa prefer public healthcare facilities when they fall ill or when involved in an accident while only 24 per cent prefer private healthcare. Also, the results from the logistic regression analysis indicate that the factors significant in influencing the probability of demand for private health care were - race, gender, and age of the household head as well as the size of the household. The results generally revealed that public health is used by many households compared to private health care. In this view, the South African government needs to invest more in public health facilities as they are used more by the larger section of the population. Further, there is a need to ensure sustainable ways of reforming private healthcare, such as reviewing its cost to ensure that the disparities in access to these health facilities are addressed. This could also help in fighting inequality and poverty in the country
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Financialised agrarian primitive accumulation in Zimbabwe
- Authors: Mhlanga, David , Ndhlovu, Emmanuel
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Agricultural sector , New dispensation regime , Peasants
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/488733 , uj:44534 , Citation: Mhlanga, D. and Ndhlovu, E., 2021. Financialised Agrarian Primitive Accumulation in Zimbabwe. African Renaissance, 18(3), pp.185-207.
- Description: Abstract: The departure of Robert Mugabe whose 37-year authoritarian rule was ended by a military coup in November 2017 was accompanied by celebrations and much optimism. The emergent ‘new dispensation’ led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised an end to authoritarian rule, despotism, a cartelised and patronage-based economy, and economic malpractices to revive the battered economy. Agriculture would remain one of the key economic sectors with Zimbabweans themselves as the cornerstone and the strongest pillar to build a strong and sustainable economy. However, a qualitative review of land discourses and policy practices reveal the contrary. Predicated on secondary sources, and based on a discourse analysis, this article shows how the new regime has abandoned its promises and relaxed policies, thereby easing investment conditions for monopoly finance capital which now engages in financialised agrarian primitive accumulation. The result has been forcing production models for peasants, livelihoods and tenure insecurity, impending peasant displacements, and a sustained cartelised and patronage-based economy and politics reminiscent of the Mugabe era.
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Socio-economic and political challenges in Zimbabwe and the development implications for Southern Africa
- Authors: Mhlanga, David , Ndhlovu, Emmanuel
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Development , Poverty , Southern Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/488689 , uj:44529 , Citation:Mhlanga, D. and Ndhlovu, E., 2021. Socio-economic and Political Challenges in Zimbabwe and the Development Implications for Southern Africa. Journal of African Foreign Affairs, 8(2), pp.75-98.
- Description: Abstract: Zimbabwe currently faces a huge spectrum of socio-economic and political challenges. These challenges have had significant development implications for the Southern Africa region. The article argues that to understand Zimbabwe’s challenges, it is crucial to first understand the country’s history: adoption of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme in 1990; involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo war in the late 1998; the hurried Fast Track Land Reform Programme in the 2000s, as well as the Operation Murambatsvina in 2005. These events served as the beginning of the country’s tumble into socio-economic and political challenges in which the country still reels. Drawing upon secondary sources, the article examines both the positive and negative development implications of these challenges for Southern Africa countries, namely, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia.
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