Posted on 10/21/2012 2:09:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
CAPE TOWN — South Africa's children still face apartheid-like inequalities with a black child 18 times more likely to grow up poor than his or her white counterpart, a report said Wednesday.
The 2012 "South African Child Gauge," which provides an annual snapshot of the state of children in Africa's biggest economy, warned that the gap between rich and poor is widening despite a dip in overall poverty.
"We have among the highest rates of inequality in the world and it hasn't gotten better, it's got slightly worse," said co-author Katharine Hall, senior researcher at the University of Cape Town-based Children's Institute.
Sixty percent of children survive on less than 575 rand ($67, 51 euro), or around two thirds of black children 18 years and only two percent of white children.
"We see old patterns of inequality repeating themselves all the time so any way you cut you have repeated racial inequalities, you have spatial inequalities," Hall told AFP.
The 108-page barometer, which draws on multiple statistical sources and studies, says that income poverty levels have dipped for children overall.
"But stark differences in poverty headcounts, particularly between white and African children, illustrate the lasting effects of apartheid," it adds.
Most of the poorest children live in rural areas, still locked into apartheid's geography of living in the poor former quasi-independent homelands that were set up for blacks by the racist white minority government.
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Here we go again, still blaming the past for the present. Just like the “civil rights” activists here.
To liberals, inequality is worse than poverty.
The President of South Africa has all of his wives on the public payroll.
In 1963, 18 years after the end of World War 2, Germany and Japan recovered from the abyss of the greatest war in history.
Cue the Margaret Thatcher speech.
P.S. How ‘bout them Gators!?
I thought it’s the whites in SA who get treated like dirt now.
Or..... is it the blacks of certain tribes who suffer apartheid at the hands of other tribes?
And what about the Coloreds? Incomplete picture here.
Chase away all the whites (through violence, robbery, rape, murder, etc.)....
...and GUESS WHAT you end up with??
Wait, Mandela had his terms in office. If this ‘god-like’ (ex terrorist) man couldn’t fix it, doesn’t that make it fairly clear it’s unfixable.
Has Mandela been excommunicated African style?
Their cities had been leveled, their factories demolished, but they still retained their most important treasure: an intelligent and hard-working citizenry.
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Haiti, and the rest will always be poor, because their people are not productive enough to be worth paying anything for.
Positively an incomplete picture. Education is not free in SA, the people in the community pay for the school, i.e., pay for attending. So of course, the wealthier the community, the better the school.
Seems those in the townships are no better off now than the were. But that’s certainly not the fault of the whites. There is no such thing as social services.
Not to worry.. Genocide looms for white farmers
Many more victims have been savagely tortured, raped, disemboweled, drowned in boiling water or worse. The horrifying evidence is available for the world to see on countless sites throughout the Internet: pictures of brutalized dead women and children – even babies.
Rural workplace violence.
When there are no more oppressed victims of racism -- all the oppressors are dead -- in the rural areas next will be the cities to cleanse. . . .
Maybe they need to change the S. African national anthem to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Et1qBCnv3c
Detroit...Philly?
Whites in South Africa are keenly aware of the plans to kill them. They expect mass killings to begin very soon after the death of Mandela, but to tell this to the world is a waste of energy. More than three thousand white farmers have already been murdered, and Genocide Watch lists the Boer farmers in South Africa as victims of genocide -- but the media couldn't care less.
KSFO Listen to Barbara Simpson today Sunday 21 Oct 4:00PM to 7:00PM I am pretty sure the guest is Pamela Geller. It's live broadcasting weekends.
Not sure what the topics will be.. mostly like the election and debate.
There are still white children growing up in South Africa?
KSFO Listen to Barbara Simpson today Sunday 21 Oct 4:00PM to 7:00PM I am pretty sure the guest is Pamela Geller. It's live broadcasting weekends.
I was just in South Africa. It is a very modern and prosperous country.
I have read that the Haitian people are very hard workers.
“Detroit...Philly?”
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I think Johannesburg makes those two seem positively serene.
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