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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.
The pre-apartheid social programmes in South Africa was mainly concerned with white poverty. [4] The earliest social welfare programmes in South Africa was the poor relief distributed by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in 1657. [4]
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 ...
“In 1967, economic security programs lifted above the poverty line just 4 percent of those who would otherwise be poor,” the report says. “By 2017, that figure had jumped to 43 percent ...
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 ...
According to Forbes, the United States tops the world in number of billionaires, with 813 as of 2024. But the fact is 37.9 million Americans, or 11.5% of the population, live in poverty,...
Development of life expectancy in South Africa according to estimation of the World Bank Group Life expectancy with calculated gender gap ... 70.10: 6.49: −3.88: 63.15:
A quarter of South Africans live on less than US$1.25 a day. [118] South Africa's mass unemployment dates back to the 1970s, and continued to rise throughout the 1980s and 1990s. [119] Unemployment has increased substantially since the African National Congress came to power in 1994, increasing from 15.6% in 1995 to 30.3% in 2001. [120]