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Social Inequality

The NHI could provide a dose of social justice for South Africa
Article
/ 15 March 2020

The NHI could provide a dose of social justice for South Africa

But to do so, it will have to provide genuine universal access to marginalised communities, including refugees and migrants

By Kayla Arnold
Why South Africa is the world’s most unequal society
Article
/ 19 November 2019

Why South Africa is the world’s most unequal society

The label is used so often it runs the risk of monotony. A new report sheds light on the full, multidimensional nightmare of South African inequality

By Dennis Webster
The Gates effect: Social entrepreneurship reframes charity
Analysis
/ 6 January 2017

The Gates effect: Social entrepreneurship reframes charity

The reality that we cannot continue to ignore is that our social development is imploding our economic growth.

By Staff Reporter
Race reinvented for post-apartheid SA
Analysis
/ 6 April 2016

Race reinvented for post-apartheid SA

Two decades since 1994, we’re still stuck in the racial categories of the old regime – a colour-coding of class from which only the rich benefit.

By Jeff Rudin
The rainbow is dead – beware the fire, SA
Analysis
/ 3 March 2016

The rainbow is dead – beware the fire, SA

South Africa has been engulfed in a cacophony of contestation as anger bubbles to the surface of our unequal society.

By Richard Pithouse
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Article
/ 23 February 2015

Six things white people have that black people don’t

There’s a reason we can’t just “move on” and get over apartheid. Its effects are still very real for black South Africans, writes Verashni Pillay.

By Verashni Pillay
Race is dividing SA – Motlanthe, de Klerk, Rupert
Article
/ 4 February 2015

Race is dividing SA – Motlanthe, de Klerk, Rupert

Former presidents FW de Klerk and Kgalema Motlanthe, and business tycoon, Johann Rupert, spoke of race and social inequality at a conference.

By Sapa

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