Mutual Aid and Informal Finance: The Persistence of Stokvels

This paper focuses on stokvels in contemporary South Africa. It examines the resilience and persistence of mutual aid in a modern setting. It seeks to build a qualitative model to understand the persistence and adaptation of the stokvels in a modern society where banking institutions coexist with in...

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Main Authors: Elise M. Dermineur, Unathi Kolanisi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2023-06-01
Series:The Thinker
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/2520