Based on statistics, nilalele [you should listen!] used by the Department of Monitoring on the 25 year review as provided by Stats SA in 2017, the total population trapped in lower-bound poverty in 2011, living on an income of R758 per person per month, 41,4% were black African women. By 2015, these figures had increased to 49,2%. In contrast, only 0,5% of those living within the lower-bound poverty line in 2011 were white males.
Furthermore, while lower-bound poverty levels for black African women deteriorated, levels for white males improved marginally from 0,5% in 2011 to 0,4% in 2015. The review also elucidated the fact that over the 25 years of democracy, the number of people employed has doubled from some 8,9 million in 1994, to 16,5 million in
2018. However, the country's economy which recorded a pedestrian 2,8% GDP growth over the 25 years, did not create jobs at the rate required to absorb the existing army of unemployed and new entrants. Translating the numbers into rates, the 25 year review report found that the official unemployment rate reached an all time high of 36,4% in 1999, fell below 25% between 2006 and 2015, reached a figure of 21,5% in 2008, just as the global financial crisis hit ... [Time Expired.]