SOCIAL WORK: A SOCIAL PARTNER IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Like many other countries worldwide, South Africa has accepted the challenge to achieve theaim of the United Nations to alleviate poverty by half by the year 2015. Thin (2002:17) states
that poverty is a clear indicator that an economic system is not working as well as it should. This
view of poverty sees it as both a social issue and an economic phenomenon (Thin, 2002:23).
The expression of poverty in both social and economic contexts is reflected in the “two worlds”
character of the South African economy, which Terreblanche (in Lombard, 2008:23) describes
as follows:
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