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Poverty
Poverty
• Africa: 13 million people face hunger and starvation
• ¾ of South African population suffers from hunger
• gap between poor and rich households widens
Poverty
Poverty
• one in five children suffers from chronic malnutrition
• bad living conditions no money left for school tuition no education
• due to a lack of identity documents no child-support grants
Poverty
Poverty
• areas, where the non-whites had to stay during apartheid-era
• characteristic of townships:
- no food-secure households
- crowded homes
- high crime
- illnesses spread easily
- high unemployment
- dangerous electrical connections
Poverty
Unemployment
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5,00
10,00
15,00
20,00
25,00
30,00
35,00
40,00
45,00
1993 1996 2000 2004
In percent ofpopulation
Source:SALDRU data from South African Labour and Development Research Unit
Unemployment
Reasons:
• Factory closures and retrenchment
• companies are not willing to invest in workplaces
• slow growth
• Blacks are poorly educated
Racial disturbances:
• Is race a great factor when determing someone‘s admission?
• Population: 74% black, only 14% white
• However, 90% of unemployed people are black
Unemployment
Crime
• South Africa is ranked first for rape and second for murder (according to a survey by the United Nations)
Problem of crime:
• Not every victim might even report a crime
• Private security firms are very popular
• South African police appears to be an incompetent force
Crime
• Sadly the crime rate might even be higher...
Problem of crime:
Crime
Source: Sibusiso Masuku, Institute for Security Studie
• Poverty (bad education, unemployment, no future)
Motives for crime:
• Racial disturbances between Blacks and Whites
• Weapons are still in circulation from the Apartheid era
Crime
• gun amnesty program
How the government and police deal with it:
• Death penalty was abolished in 1994
• Police represents a malevolent force many people turn to private security firms
Crime
Crime
Total number of offences recorded per 100 000 of the population
Source: Interpol 1998, CIAC 1998
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