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According to the World Bank, South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world [citation needed].The difference between the wealthy and the poor in South Africa has been increasing steadily since the end of apartheid in 1994, and this inequality is closely linked to racial divisions in society.
[4] [5] Despite a growing gross domestic product, indices for poverty, unemployment, income inequality, life expectancy and land ownership, have declined. [3] [6] No industry in the economy has over 50% ownership by Black individuals in terms of their share even though 81.4% of the South African population is Black.
During the last 3 months of 2023, around 85 people were murdered in South Africa every day. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] [ 113 ] The murder rate increased rapidly in the late-1980s and early-1990s. [ 114 ] In 2001, a South African was more likely to be murdered than die in a car crash, [ 115 ] but the murder rate halved between 1994 and 2009 from 67 to 34 ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed overnight when fire raged through a five-storey Johannesburg apartment block that may have been rented out illegally, known as a "hijacked ...
In Johannesburg in the 1950s, crime was a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was the nucleus of all reef crimes. Gangsters were city-bred and spoke a mixture of Afrikaans and English, known as tsotsitaal. Some of the more well-known gangs in Sophiatown were the Russians, the Americans, the Gestapo, the Berliners and the Vultures.
The Day aims to bring the much needed attention back to the millions of people living in poverty right now. Although we all know that poverty is an extreme global epidemic, many of us don't know ...
Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was a South African socio-economic policy framework implemented by the African National Congress (ANC) government of Nelson Mandela in 1994 after months of discussions, consultations and negotiations between the ANC, its Alliance partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party, and "mass organisations in ...
Young people are particularly disillusioned; according to the 2024 World Happiness Report, the young are the least happy age group of all.This generation faces an interesting irony: the world has ...