SARChi Chair
SUSTAINABLE LOCAL(RURAL) LIVELIHOODS

The declaration of the state of disaster as per the Disaster Management Act of 2003 has afforded South Africans from all walks of life time to reflect on the role of government handling the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. As ordinary South Africans, economists, scientist, business and various stakeholders, the reflections we make during this lockdown knowingly or not relate to some critical aspects of risk governance.Risk governance pertains to various approaches in which many stakeholders handle  risk in the midst of uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. In a broader context, risk governance is understood as a collective decision-making process whose many purposes are to identify, access, manage, communicate, monitor and evaluate in a process that involves all stakeholders.