Political Aspects of Reproduction of Inequalities in the Republic of South Africa

The Republic of South Africa has been recently recognized as the world’s “most unequal state in terms of wealth and income distribution”. The Gini coefficient for wealth distribution in South Africa stands at 0.96%, which perfectly reflects the total coefficient of wealth distribution across the glo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Historia i polityka 2020-06, Vol.39 (32), p.9-26
1. Verfasser: Polus, Andrzej
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The Republic of South Africa has been recently recognized as the world’s “most unequal state in terms of wealth and income distribution”. The Gini coefficient for wealth distribution in South Africa stands at 0.96%, which perfectly reflects the total coefficient of wealth distribution across the globe. The purpose of the article is to answer the question of how inequalities inherited from the apartheid period were even further aggravated after 1994.
ISSN:1899-5160
2391-7652
DOI:10.12775/HiP.2020.011