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Full Pretoria Student Law Review (2007) 1

Definition of termsPoverty is generally equated with indigence, or, in other words, insufficient resources to sustain a person in life, financial disability or a lack of means of comfortable subsistence so as not to be in want.3 It may be argued that 'insufficiency of means' is a relative term.Accordingly, there are two basic types of poverty.One is relative poverty, and the other is absolute or real poverty.My concern here is not with relative poverty, as there is no way this category of poverty can be eradicated.Indeed, such eradication is not even desirable, particularly in a capitalist soc…