Reflections from the Margins Complexities, Transitions and Developmental Challenges : Complexities, Transitions and Developmental Challenges: the Case of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Authors -- Abbreviations &amp -- Acronyms -- Foreword -- Introduction: Complexities, Transitions and Developmental Challenges -- Why does the Eastern Cape Province matter? -- The premise of the book -- Theoretical and conceptual framework -- Through an artistic lens -- The structure of the book -- Theme 1: Socio-historical Perspectives and Population Dynamics of the Eastern Cape -- 1: Eastern Cape Population Patterns and Trends -- AMA-CHEAPER -- Introduction -- Settlement patterns in South-Eastern South Africa -- Historical dynamics -- Patterns of family and households -- Recent migration patterns -- Profile of migrants -- Health and mortality patterns -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 2: Unpacking the Cultural Heritage of the amaMpondo in the Eastern Cape -- ZITYEBIL' IILWIMI ZETHU/OUR LANGUAGES ARE RICH -- Introduction -- The amaMpondo and cultural heritage during the colonial and apartheid eras -- AmaMpondo cultural heritage after 1994 -- The Pondo Culture and Heritage Festival -- Promoting amaMpondo culture and heritage: Some challenges -- Mpondo cultural heritage: The way forward -- Theme 2: Poverty, Dissatisfaction and Social Exclusion -- 3: Multiple Deprivations in the Eastern Cape -- blue gold -- Introduction -- Conceptualising and defining multiple deprivation -- Setting the Eastern Cape in context - province and national level comparisons -- Deprivation in the Eastern Cape's district municipalities -- Deprivation in the Eastern Cape's local municipalities -- The Eastern Cape's most deprived wards -- Former homeland analysis -- What accounts for high levels of multiple deprivation in the Eastern Cape? -- Conclusion -- 4: Income Poverty and Unemployment in the Eastern Cape -- SINOBUDLELWANO NAMANZI/OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WATER -- Introduction -- Methodology.

Results: Income poverty in the Eastern Cape -- Results: Employment deprivation in the Eastern Cape -- Results: NEETs in the Eastern Cape -- Interventions to tackle poverty and unemployment in the Eastern Cape -- Conclusion -- 5: Yearning for Basic Municipal Services: The Trajectories of Community Protests in the Eastern Cape -- INDLALA/POVERTY -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework of public trust -- Methodology -- Results and analysis -- Conclusion -- 6: Population Health, Healthcare Systems and Access to Healthcare: The Case of the Eastern Cape -- BOY -- Introduction -- The apartheid system and national health: South Africa and the Bantustans -- Transkei and Ciskei: The independence of the Bantustans and healthcare -- Healthcare systems challenges -- The state of the Eastern Cape health services -- Death, Dying and Silence in the Eastern Cape -- Two steps forward, three steps back - A tale of the Eastern Cape clinics -- The state of sexual and reproductive health in the focal areas -- Conclusion -- Theme 3: Family Dynamics and Societal Expectations -- 7: 'Smooth Seas Do Not Make Skilful Sailors': The Shifting Dynamics of Family Structures and Social Roles -- UKUTSHINTSHA KWAMAXESHA/CHANGE OF TIMES -- Introduction -- Background and context -- Research methods -- Historicising the migration phenomenon and translocality in the Eastern Cape -- Changes in the family structure: Household structure, composition, and family types -- Factors associated with family changes in Eastern Cape -- Migration and leaving families behind -- Cultural beliefs, adjustment and migration -- Why you cannot take families with to a place of work -- Impact on those left-behind -- Plural families and abandoned spouses and children -- Marriage and reproduction as a marker of femininity andachievement -- Conclusion.

8: "Left Out" Xhosa Mens' Experience of and Adjustment to Divorce -- MOTHERLESS FATHERS WITH CHILDREN -- Introduction -- Social and cultural context -- Family structures -- Apartheid and the South African family -- Fatherhood and identity -- Pre-divorce experience -- Experiencing divorce -- Adjustment process -- Post-divorce experience -- Masculinity in Xhosa culture -- Masculinity and divorce -- Conclusion -- 9: The Black Charismatic Church Ministries and the New Social Practice of Family in the Eastern Cape -- IBANDLA/THE CHURCH -- OOMAVUK' ENGCENI/THE SPROUTS -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Failed development and the role of BCCMs in Eastern Cape -- Thinking through Ubuntu: A parenting community -- BCCMs as extended family : Presentation and discussion -- Conclusion -- 10: A Glance at the State of Education in the Eastern Cape -- IMFUNDO/EDUCATION -- Introduction -- Historical and political context of education in the Eastern Cape -- Socio-economic factors that have a bearing on learning and teaching -- Infrastructure -- Classroom activities -- School management -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Conclusion.

Since the dawn of colonialism in Southern Africa, the province of the Eastern Cape emerged as the cradle of African resistance against colonial oppression.

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