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  2. Social welfare programmes in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa has one of the most extensive social welfare systems among developing countries in the world. [1] In 2019, an estimated 18 million people received some form of social grant provided by the government. [2] Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. [3]

  3. Homelessness in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Other cities with a significant share of the country's homeless population was Johannesburg (15.6%), Cape Town (11.9%), and eThekwini (10.1%). [19] Gauteng province had the largest number of homeless people with 25,384 recorded individuals and the Western Cape had the second largest homeless population with a total of 9,743 recorded individuals ...

  4. Crime in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Due to poverty and deprivation, unstable living arrangements and inconsistent parenting, [18] some South African children are exposed to risk factors which increase their chances of becoming involved in criminality and violence. High levels of inequality, poverty, unemployment, social exclusion and marginalisation.

  5. South Africa's unemployment is a 'ticking time bomb.' Anger ...

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    Isobel Frye, executive director of the Social Policy Initiative in South Africa, which researches poverty and unemployment, said it equates to 24 million adults out of a population of 60 million ...

  6. Factbox-What are Johannesburg’s 'hijacked buildings' and why ...

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    Since the end of apartheid in 1994, a housing crisis in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, has grown worse, as big businesses moved out of the inner city into ...

  7. Causes of poverty - Wikipedia

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    According to World Bank guidelines, people living on less than $2.15 a day are considered to be living in extreme poverty. This generally applies to low-income countries. For lower-middle-income countries, the threshold is $3.20 a day, and for upper-middle-income countries, it is $5.50 a day.

  8. Give Us the Money - Wikipedia

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    The film is produced by Momento Film and is a part of the cross media project Why Poverty? The film explores the Live Aid campaign that Midge Ure and Bob Geldof started 1985. With the film Lindquist wants to examine if charity from celebrities really can fight poverty.

  9. Reconstruction and Development Programme - Wikipedia

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    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 ...