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The centennial celebrations of the birth of Nelson Mandela have drawn attention to the progress South Africa has made since the euphoric elections of 1994 that marked the end of apartheid [19659002]. Over the past 24 years, South Africa has struggled to live up to Mandela's vision
– Race and inequality –
A World Bank report said this year that the # South Africa was the most unequal society in the world. – An overwhelming condemnation of the legacy of apartheid and the inability to attack its consequences
"Inequality has risen since the end of the year. apartheid in 1994 ", says report
" Race still affects ability to find a job "
Report reveals three million more South Africans sank into poverty between 2011 and 2015 , triggering the vows of a renewed action on the part of President Cyril Ramaphosa
Racism remains a constant theme of life, with racist comments on social media and in everyday life regularly sparking the day. indignation and furious public debate
The spatial segregation of apartheid has also changed little: townships like Soweto, while many whites live in middle-clbad suburbs.
An annual survey revealed that In 2000, 72% of people think And that race relations improved, but only 45% had the same feeling in 2014.
– Economic pain –
Unemployment has long clouded during and after apartheid
In 1994 , the unemployment rate was about 20%, with the hope that the country's reengagement in the global economy would lead to growth would transform the labor market.
But the statistics tell a sinister story. The unemployment rate is now 26.7%, close to its record post-apartheid peak in 2017.
Many badysts say that the real unemployment rate is much higher and that young people exceeds 50%
. entire generation of "freeborn" – South Africans born after 1994 – disillusioned, desperate to work and excluded from the dominant economy
South Africa's GDP growth has been uneven and often slow, going from 3.2% in 1994 to 5.6% in 2006.
It collapsed to minus 1.5% in 2009, before returning to 1.5% this year.
– Health and AIDS –
South Africa has the largest HIV / AIDS epidemic in the world. 7.1 million people living with HIV and an adult prevalence rate of 18.9%.
President Thabo Mbeki's "Holocaust denialism" lifted life expectancy from 62 in 1994 to 52 in 2006, questioning the link between HIV and AIDS. a public treatment program. [19659022] Harvard researchers estimate that 330,000 people died unnecessarily.
South Africa changed course in 2008 and now has the largest antiretroviral treatment program in the world, largely funded by its own resources.
– Violent Crimes –
South Africa suffers from a high number of violent crimes ranging from murder and rape to car theft and badault robbery
19,000 people were murdered in the country.
Fear of crime is a constant in many people's lives, and South Africans often believe that the problem has increased since 1994, but statistics are very controversial.
A 2016 study says that in 1994 – when the country appeared on the verge of civil war – there were about 74 murders a day, indicating a sharp decline since then, all the more so as the population has increased by about 36 percent.
However, the homicide rate has increased since about 2013.
Whatever South Africans live with the omnipresent fear of violent crime and those who can afford it live behind electric fences and high walls, monitored by security cameras and protected by armed guards.
A World Bank report earlier this year stated that South Africa was the most unequal society in the world
A woman at the Cape Met horse race, one of the horse races the richest in Africa
7.1 million South Africans live with HIV
a hill at the Monument of the White Cross, each marking a white farmer killed in a farm kill at Ysterberg
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