Citizenship and the politics of poverty definition during the segregation, apartheid and democratic eras in South Africa: 1910-2010 by Magasela, W

“…There is, therefore, a conceptual discord and contradiction between the understanding of poverty expressed in social and economic rights in the Constitution and the use of absolute, minimalist, physical efficiency definitions of poverty. In the democratic era there are emerging studies and analyses of poverty that go beyond absolute measures and consider poverty as fundamentally multi-dimensional. …”