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

0,00

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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