We remain one of the most unequal countries in the world, held back by corruption and crime.
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, FW de Klerk. The number of regular houses, as opposed to makeshift shacks, increased by a quarter since 1996, as did access to electricity , according to a Centre for Risk Analysis survey in 2019.
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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