Whenever people talk about gender-based violence and government’s intervention in the fight against this scourge in our society, the conversation inevitably revolves around analysing policing, the criminal justice system and the laws that govern our country. And rightly so – these are key facets of governance that should assist in eradicating GBV. However, I argue that not much work has been done towards understanding how macroeconomic policy affects black women.
The government then has a substantial role to play in ensuring that black women are granted their just financial agency and economic liberation in order to increase their bargaining power. A majority of black women currently reside in townships and rural areas that are a result of apartheid spatial planning and are therefore subject to class stratification.
This economic policy formulation has relegated black women to the status of a passive citizenry whose lives have been minified to fit existing policies with little-to-no consideration of the repugnant conditions for black women. This isn’t just any form of discretionary spending, but is a public investment that has a positive spillover to the economy when directed well.
There is also existing work that shows how child support grants make it easier for black women to find employment, like the work presented by, a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics. Tondini discovered that finding a job, particularly a formal one, is expensive. It is both time-consuming and resource-dependent.
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