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The black middle class in South Africa has grown, but much of the inequality in the country remains the same. (File photo)
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Race and politics distract us from the issue of inequality

South Africa’s inequality is a class issue masked by race and political infighting, distracting from pragmatic solutions and true liberation goals

As we prepare to listen to another tough budget speech, it is time to recognise the vital but neglected role played by this strata in modern South Africa

South Africa’s middle class is three salaries away from poverty

"An assessment of middle classes should consider their vulnerability rather than hold a romanticised view"

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa

Repugnant outcomes of a caste system

Intergenerational legacies of socioeconomic exclusion have locked millions of South Africans into social castes, not classes.

The next step in the class action silicosis case and sick miners

Gold mining giants are beginning to negotiate with mineworkers and their families.

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.

(John McCann)

We must build on psychology of peace

The privileged classes need to develop solidarity with those groups who have been marginalised.

Former defence minister Mosioua Lekota.

Class, race and the new native

South Africa today suffers a confusion between the rule of the people, the rule of law and the rule of property.

Class elephant ironically ignored

The class of class struggle is much more than just an objective measure of poverty or wealth, of inequality or economic power.