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Due to poverty and deprivation, unstable living arrangements and inconsistent parenting, [20] 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.
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 ...
GEAR prioritised economic growth, believing that economic growth could solve poverty problem by job creation. [5] GEAR emphasised that economic growth should be led by the private sector and reduced the role state took in economy. [5] As a result, the decrease in public spending led to the elimination or shrinkage of social services. [5]
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 ...
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 ...
Hillbrow (/ ˈ h ɪ l b r oʊ /) is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty, prostitution [2] and crime.
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 ...
This is a list of South African provinces by poverty rate as of 2014. The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The estimates can therefore differ from other estimates, like the national poverty rate.