Although segregation is no longer legal, South Africans find themselves experiencing inequality, with 64% of the country's poor being Black.
South Africa is still battling its apartheid scars When she was just 13 years old, Zukiswa Qezo was shot five times. ‘They left me for dead,’ Zukiswa, now 51, tells Metro.co.uk. They, she says, were soldiers and police. Their battlefield was a 1985 classroom and their enemy were unarmed and helpless children.
‘If you’re educated you are more likely to see that your child is educated.’ In 2018, a report by the South African Human Rights Commission found that South Africa’s poor was comprised of 64% blacks, 41% coloureds, 6% Indians and 1% of whites. The discovery was later backed up in 2022, when South Africa was deemed the most unequal country in the world, according to The World Bank. It highlighted a cruel Catch 22 scenario.
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