HSRC Seminar: Township Economy 4 August 2020

 Online seminar

Overview: Book launch - Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the third decade of Africa’s democracy and draws on evidence collected from 2010-2018 in 10 township sites, nine in South Africa and one in Namibia. The book focuses on micro-enterprises, the business strategies of township entrepreneurs and the impact of autonomous informal economic activities on urban life.

Presenters:        Dr Andrew Charman, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation NPC Dr Leif Petersen, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation NPC; Extraordinary Senior Lecturer Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), UWC Thireshen Govender, Graduate School of Architecture, UJ and UrbanWorks Prof. Ivan Turok, HSRC

Chair:                  Dr Vimal Ranchhod, School of Economics, UCT

Book: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/township-economy-people-spaces-and-practices For more information and seminar presentations: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/events/seminars/township-economy