South Africa was top of the list of 164 countries in the World Bank’s global poverty database followed by Namibia.
JOHANNESBURG - Labour unions on Thursday said they were not surprised by a new report by the World Bank that found South Africa was the most unequal country in the world.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions said the new data was not surprising given the high unemployment rate in South Africa and black women were bearing the brunt. Spokesperson Sizwe Pamla said government should pull up its socks and implement initiatives like a housing scheme for public servants to deal with the shortage of land ownership in the country.
“Its not that a question of giving people land, it’s a question of giving them a core settlement support. If you settle people into a piece of land, you need to ensure those people have the means, the skills and the resources to work that land.” The World Bank’s report found that the sharp inequality in land ownership also contributed to perpetuating the historically high levels of income inequality.
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