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[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.
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 ...
Today, the majority of the residents are incoming migrants from the townships, rural areas and the rest of Africa, many living in abject poverty. An urban regeneration programme is underway. There are street markets, mainly used by local residents, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery contains work by major local artists including William Kentridge.
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 ...
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.
On October 17th each year, the United Nations hosts the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (also known as World Poverty Day). The Day aims to bring the much needed attention back to ...
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 ...
Kumi Naidoo (born 1965) is a South African human rights and climate justice activist.He was International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 through 2015) [1] and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 through 2019 [2]).