S. Africa Wealth Gap Unchanged Since Apartheid, Group Says
- World Inequality Lab report draws on data from 1993 to 2017
- Law, policies pushing equality fail to narrow gap, study shows
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The social architecture formed over more than three centuries of White rule has maintained South Africa’s position as the world’s most unequal society, according to the Thomas Piketty-backed World Inequality Lab.
Attempts by the now-democratic government to wipe away the legacy of apartheid and colonialism have failed to narrow the imbalance between rich and poor, with 3,500 adults owning more than the poorest 32 million people in the country of 60 million, it said in a report released this week.