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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 ...
A 2010 study published by the University of Johannesburg, showed that 61% of disabled people living in the 8 poorest wards in Johannesburg were not accessing the state's disability grant due to various reasons, including not knowing that the grant existed. [26]
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 ...
Malnutrition is an underlying cause of severe poverty. [8] According to statistics from the year 2000, 50% of the South African population is under the poverty line. [33] South Africa's per capita GDP is $11000 but 21% of people live on a dollar or less a day. In 2008, 27.9% of youth between ages fifteen and twenty-four were unemployed, and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
"Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa 1973" depicts a white family amid the context of the Group Areas Act designating the area "Whites-only". [25] "Domestic Worker on Abel Road, Hillbrow, Johannesburg March 1973", depicts a black domestic worker. [26] Both photographs are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [27] "Sunday morning ...