South Africa: struggling 25 years after apartheid vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Twenty-five years after the end of white-minority rule, South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world and is held back by corruption and crime.
His release in 1990 heralded the transition to democracy for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize with the last white president, F.W. de Klerk. But some 20 percent of black households are classed as living in extreme poverty compared to 2.9 percent of white households, the Institute of Race Relations says.
However, mining has shed about 300,000 jobs, now only making up about seven percent of gross domestic product from a peak of about 20 percent in the 1980s.
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