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Inequality not so black and white in South Africa

Tuesday, 09 February 2010

Johannesburg, South Africa

Dube Hostel, Soweto, Johannesburg

The growing gulf between the haves and have-nots in the black population has given South Africa the dubious distinction of becoming one of the world's most unequal societies, according to a recent report by the OECD.

"Intra-African [black] inequality and poverty trends increasingly dominate aggregate inequality and poverty in South Africa," noted the report.

The demise of apartheid in 1994 left a skewed racial economic hierarchy that placed whites firmly at the top, followed by Indians, coloureds, and then blacks. Since then the African National Congress (ANC) government has made Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) a policy centre-piece, but by the party's own admission it has failed to improve the lot of the vast majority of black South Africans. Continue reading

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