@mooshtaffa I am also looking for this data. I find it hard to believe that Morocco is now the most industrialized economy in Africa, and granted SA is leaning more heavily towards agriculture and services, but I think we are still industrialized more than any other African country.
@Nkoskhodola_23 There arw ways in which foreign nationals can become citizens of a country.
@grok please explain how a family can come to South Africa legally. I am not talking about a refugee.
@Simon_Sithole20 Blame the NGOs. We should first start dealing with NGO rot and SAHRC.
But ultimately it goes back to your point about government enforcing laws.
@ianosworldwide@AfricaFirsts Who is "You guys" in this context?
You are also sharing an article with no context as to why you shared it when my question was a simple one, I.e. "who is considered middle class". To dumb it down for you, what level of income equates to someone being classified as middle class.
In 1982, the South African government spent an average of R1211 on education for each White child and only R146 for each Black child.
Over 30% of all White teachers had a university degree, with the rest having matriculated. Only 2.3% of Black teachers had a university degree, and 82% had not even finished high school. More than half had not reached Standard 8 (Grade 10).
Basically, Black learners were taught by teachers who had not completed high school themselves.
For decades, only a few White children failed end-of-year exams and needed to re-sit school grades, since the quality of their education was significantly better. Meanwhile, the fact that Black children were taught in their second or third language meant they were much more likely to fail the end-of-year assessments and re-do a particular grade several times.
There were also limited opportunities for Black students to continue their education, which meant they had less motivation to remain in school, and job reservation policies ensured that white-collar positions were predominantly held by White people, with job options for Black people being mostly limited to manual labour.
This meant that even when Black students succeeded academically, Apartheid laws restricted access to universities and professional occupations. Many White-collar jobs were reserved for White South Africans, reducing the perceived reward for remaining in school.
Today, South Africa suffers from the highest youth unemployment rate among major economies, with millions of young Black South Africans holding matric certificates and university degrees, the very things denied to their parents, but still unable to find work.
The tragedy is that the very problems driving desperation today are the direct results of Apartheid, with the current generational poverty being the compound interest of a century of deliberate economic sabotage.
And when a system denies quality education to 80% of its population for generations, the inequality doesn’t vanish just because the laws changed in 1994.