List of tables and figures Introduction The global crisis of inequality and its South African manifestations -- Devan Pillay Part One: Inequality And Class: Polarities And Policies Chapter 1 Inequality in South Africa -- Neva Makgetla Chapter 2 A national minimum wage in South Africa: A tool to reduce inequality? -- Jana Mudronova and Gilad Isaacs Chapter 3 The politics of poverty and inequality in South Africa: Connectivity, abjections and the problem of measurement -- Sarah Bracking Chapter 4 The financialisation of the poor and the reproduction of inequality -- David Neves Part Two: The Politics Of Inequality Chapter 5 Liberal democracy, inequality and the imperatives of alternative politics: Nigeria and South Africa -- Samuel Oloruntoba Chapter 6 Liberalism and anti-liberalism in South Africa. Or, is an egalitarian liberalism possible? -- Daryl Glaser Chapter 7 Equality and inequality in South Africa. What do we actually want? And how do we get it? -- Roger Southall Part Three: Social Dimensions Of Inequality Chapter 8 Analysis must rise: A political economy of falling fees -- Stephanie Allais Chapter 9 Education, the state and class inequality: The case for free higher education in South Africa -- Enver Motala, Salim Vally and Rasigan Maharajh Chapter 10 Still waiting: The South African government's pending promise of equality for people with disabilities -- Jacqui Ala and David Black Chapter 11 Big fish in small ponds: Changing stratification and inequalities in small towns in the Karoo region, South Africa -- Doreen Atkinson Part Four: Land And Environment Chapter 12 Spatial defragmentation in rural South Africa: A prognosis of agrarian reforms -- Samuel Kariuki Chapter 13 Mining, rural struggles and inequality on the platinum belt, South Africa -- Sonwabile Mnwana Chapter 14 Challenging environmental injustice and inequality in contemporary South Africa -- Jacklyn Cock Chapter 15 The geography of nuclear power, class and inequality in South Africa -- Jo-Ansie van Wyk List of contributors Index.