Poverty preserves racial lines in post-apartheid South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- South Africa is a complex and changing country that is still dealing with a legacy of racial division. It was only 15 years ago that the system of apartheid ended, and since then many of the racial barriers have been broken down, if not forgotten.
But a gap still exists today between have and have-nots, and many of the poor are black. They may be equal on paper, but because of impoverished conditions, many still feel unequal.
Worldfocus special correspondent Martin Seemungal takes look at the new South Africa, beginning in Soweto, a former black township in Johannesburg that came to symbolize the repressive old days.
Bloggers in South Africa and elsewhere discuss the state of race relations in the country: worldfocus.org/...
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for some reason, the coloured people are always left out.
And yet coloured people are running the government.
Reap what you sow right?
Another video on SA missing the real issues in SA.
what is the real issue?
What is the real issue?
@@g.mgomza239 There are many issues. The new black elites enrich themselves without a thought for the people below them. The corruption is shameless. Have you seen the party some of these people gave recently? They rocked up in Ferraris and other luxury cars protected by men with automatic weapons. The bill was over a million for six hours. Some of this video was made in or near Cape Town where thousands of people flock to every month. They leave their homes hoping for a better life not realizing that where they are going there is no housing, water is scarce and electricity is not a given. In fact, they become destitute in a very short time. The traditional family structure has fallen apart and up to seventy per cent of kids grow up without the father financing or raising them. This in fact creates more poverty. Very few youngsters have a clear vision or hope for their future. Teenage pregnancies cause school dropouts and more poverty. Due to the continuous strikes and unrest, nobody wants to invest in South Africa which is a disaster in a country with such high unemployment. The government hands out masses of social grants which in fact creates debt which future generations will be burdened with. The covid debts and lockdowns caused more poverty and hunger. Suicides are at critical levels..........because young people cannot see a future.......the rest you can fill in yourself as you are also aware of the troubles plaguing the country.
Get out while u still can !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey how about comments on capecoloreds and Asians
Good article, but families go to malls. If the family is white, then they will sit together. if the family is black then they will sit together. The idea of building a larger middle class is the best solution.
This isn't about racial discrimination, this is about income inequality.
Fact.
Minorities are legally being discriminated agaisnt -.- That's institutionalized discrimination aginst NON-Blacks. Fact
ARVIN 👍🙏👏
AAARGHism 👍🙏
generational wealth was stolen from the black, creating the unequal income level today.
anyone who doesn't accept that is just a Demonic white liar
Get out while you can! !!!!!!!!!!!!
The main issue isn't race, it's income inequality and corruption
As long as appartheid is blamed for the currant problems in south africa, nothing will get better. if something works like school systems, it has to be destroyed. SA kids are really stupid now with lack of education. Tax is there to fund ministers and their familys, not the poor. So the ANC is raping their own kind. I do not feel sorry for you at all. We have now become numb to your pathetic pain and suffering. if someone begs, I tell them to ask Zuma
Come with me on a tour through SA and down memory lane and I'll show you another picture and truth.
where are chinese people???? (Im black)
@Victoria Adeyemi nah chinese taking over africa actually
ghost jpn in Beijing brother
I left South Africa in year2000. I gave the black men six years, to show me, that they can govern their country better, than the white man. They don't persuaded me, so we left! BTW, all time cited word "apartheid" is not a dirty word, it means "separated developement". In USA they implemented much harder separatismus, while pointing the finger to South Africa!
Robert Chutney thanks for getting the fuck out you worm
im glad you left that shithole
@@mss4822 if it is a shit hole then he was a shit himself for going there in the first place
that would have been great IF they developed the black part of town like they did the white
Wage gap problem.. if can change that the country will be a better place for all
In response and in respect to the poor feeling resentment toward the rich.. it's the same all around the world black or white, no matter, it human nature..
People have equal / human rights one and all..
Don't pretend though that all people are or will be equal.. They never have been and never will be.
Because we're all individuals.
Some are hard working some are lazy
Some earn high but spend everything
Some earn little but can save a lot of money..
Some are bright others are not. ..
Some love ❤ Some hate. 😡
Choose who you will be.
Stats don't lie, not much has really changed.
It has gotten so much worse.
i am not an expert at art, but I do know that there is niether black nor white in a rainbow.
@michaelacarterrichar, South Africa is the country with the highest intentional homicide rate in the world. Wikipedia on intentional homicide by country.
Wikipedia is notorious for inaccurate information about Africa.
we should stop saying that south africa is a non-racial country instead we should say SA chose to conceal racism
Where is the asian people un south África
javi andik they are here they were not sell outs they fought shoulder to shoulder against white mafias. They are safe, no black person treat Asians bad here or we will fuck you up.
The older folks are still holding on to what they know. It's the younger generation who don't seem to think that there is a problem as this is the world that they have been born into. They are probably thinking that the older generation are a lot of old fogies who are living in the dark ages.
The narrator's pronunciation 😂😂😂
3:27 DAMN! That girl is so beautiful
I'm watching this in April of 2019, ten years after this was first published. Has there been substantial change in the areas addressed here in the decade that has passed since this first aired?
Yeah man, We are now expropriating land without compensation from the white minority who hold about 70% of countries land while natives only have about 22%
After hundred of year ,That is where they reach in South Africa. It's a start .but very little. Greed ,is one of the main cause and hate for the colour of the. skin.but if we look all around ,every thing has different colour.why the hate
@Vikiinduku The west clearly doesn't like to acknowledge the wrongs they have committed in the past. But they find it okay to criticise south africa for its problems...it's so hypocritical. Literally every westernised country existing today had similar segregation structures in place at some point in their history, the only difference is that south africa is the most recent example. I think it was time the pot stopped calling the kettle black, don't you agree?
We need more people that get along with each ofther we are all human only differences is colour.
Thanks for telling the truth
blacks invented everything there. Amazing!
joe fitness lol!!!
Except prosperity.
My teacher once said my class was the worst when it came to Apartheid we were all nervous but she said she meant gender we were all relieved
too much questions bring more racism
wow check out that shopping mall beautiful
At 5.50, she is beautiful.
Robert Bump Well said !
Yes, the older generation are still stuck in the Apartheid time. The young generations are not discriminating or prejudiced. Apartheid not only deprived of freedom, but also right for education, vocational training, and socializing. Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Why doesn't the Hague International Crime Court intervene???
And which party is the competent one then?
SURE
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I am here in in South Africa there is unequality in this country every were and Racism
South Africa might surpass the U.S. on race issues. It already surpassed Brazil.
South Africa has the advantage of being a majority Black nation with a Black Government. Brazil has a slight majority Afro Decedent population that has a White Government. And the United States have a minority Black population that elected it first Black president.
South Africa, America and Brazil is tied to White people economically. But South Africa blacks are further ahead in changing this scenario. But because of the negative impact that Apartheid was to the black population in SA, they have a longer way to reaching there goal. In Brazil, Afro Brazilians are just getting their feet wet. So right now, Black Americans are ahead when it comes to farming, governing, business enterprise. But the least likely to govern their own land, since the majority of the land that black people reside are whites. This could change in the distant future, but not within a 50 year period. The other country is Brazil, which has an even greater potential of at least having an Afro decedent president, but due to the lack of an educated population and it being a class based system with racial undertones this could take some time. And being under a Latin Bureaucracy is very different than being under an Anglo system, which is what America and South African is.
Look what I found: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiq7v3Wvd7kAhXQm-AKHcNyCr4QFjAAegQIAxAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scielo.br%2Fpdf%2Frsocp%2Fv23n55%2F0104-4478-rsocp-23-55-0035.pdf&usg=AOvVaw19HNDE2gGsZPHlf2TZTY72 Both authors argue that the historical-institutional heritage of the two countries favor equality-related policies in South Africa. More recent empirical find-
ings do not support this point of view: South African indicators showed rising
income inequalities since the end of apartheid (1994), from 0.66 in 1993 to 0.7
in 2000 (Leibbrandt et al., 2010, p.32), peaking at 0.72 in 2006, after which the
Gini coefficient dropped slightly to 0.7 in 2009 and 0.69 in 2011 (SSA 2014,
p.14). While general inequalities were rising, intra-racial inequalities dropped
slightly (Seekings & Nattrass 2005). In Brazil, the picture differed significantly:
while intra-racial inequalities also dropped slightly, general inequalities
dropped significantly, especially in the 2000s: after slight declines during the
1990s (the Gini dropping from 0.6 in 1993 to 0.59 in 1999), the Gini coefficient
constantly improved during the 2000s, to 0.56 in 2006 with further drops to 0.54
in 2009 and 0.53 in 2011 and 2012 (IPEA 2015). As both countries have been
governed by parties linked to the trade union movement and devoted to the re-
duction of inequalities, it is of special interest why income inequalities have
been reduced to a much greater degree in Brazil than in South Africa 4 .
I guess somethings never change. That is just the way it is. People are comfortable with their own- but together they can make very interesting things happen.
apartheid separated but equals... i agree
make me proud to be part of the new generation, make love the war
so much inaccuracy... but hook line and sinker then....
White man usually take progress with him!!! And all benefit!!!! Even Cassyus Clay said it...blue birds fly with blue birds, red birds fly with red birds.. black birds fly with black birds...but how beautiful when they learn to fly together with unity and respect for each other!!!!