Inequality in South Africa

A thorn in the flesh

President Nelson Mandela's democratic election in 1994 marked the end of political apartheid in South Africa. Under the apartheid, South Africans were classified into four different races: white, black, coloured, and Indian/Asian. About 80% of the South African population is classified as black, about 9% as white, 9% as coloured, and 2% as Indian/Asian. Under apartheid, whites held political power, and other races were barred from voting. While the end of apartheid opened the door for equal opportunity of all South Africans regardless of race, today’s South Africa struggles to correct the inequalities created by decades of apartheid.

Many people do not understand that the status quo has never change. It was a loyal transfer, from one group to another, under the control of the status quo that supported South Africa. That is why nothing much have changed. 

Every year we see and experience men made calamities. Nothing change and will never change, unless the status quo change. 

The pain of inequality are deeply rooted in communities that are economically excluded. They are not at fault, but trapped in a system that is unjust, unequal, corrupt and pinch penny. Most of the people living in and under such conditions, will perish in the gutters and that is reality.

The cries and pain of the poor, get mostly little attention or no attention at all. This has become a way of living for them. Look at the fat over weight critics and how much they contribute to create more disaster. Yet they claim to "fight" for the people, as if they have a clue what fighting is. 

A hand full of people tirelessly try to bring positive change, while the majority, with nothing else then criticising feed like vultures on the poor. Maybe because they do not understand the effects of poverty, neither the devastated ramifications that comes with poverty. 

A relation that holds between two values when they are different, is in mathematical terms referred to as inequality. 

Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of income, and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific country or of the world in general. For the benefit of those that does not understand the relations referring to in this post.