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South Africa Gateway
ByMary Alexanderon
Where are South Africa’s poorest places?Food poverty line meaning
Two maps find the patterns of poverty: the share of households living in poverty in each municipality, and the number of poor people living there. An animation tries to make sense of the maps.
South Africa’s poorest province is the Eastern Cape.
The wealthiest province is Gauteng. Around 880,000 of the mostly rural Eastern Cape’s people live in poverty.
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In Gauteng, a city region with the best opportunities for jobs, some 610,000 people live in poverty.
These numbers are calculated from Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey.
Poverty in South Africa has deep historical roots that show up in more recent movements of people.
Map of South Africa showing estimated numbers of people living in poverty.
The numbers are calculated from the population, poverty headcount and average household size of each municipality.
The reason so many South Africans live in poverty, in a middle-income country, is apartheid and colonialism.
Apartheid was a crude at
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