Poverty within white South Africa

When stories are told about African poverty, race often seems to play a large part. Based in Senegal, Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly traveled to South Africa earlier and visited one of a growing number of squatter camps populated mostly by Afrikaners - white South Africans - to document their stories and help show that, despite the fact that impoverished blacks in the region far outnumber whites, poverty is a human issue, not necessarily racial. O'Reilly: "While most white South Africans still enjoy lives of privilege and relative wealth, the number of poor whites has risen steadily over the past 15 years. Researchers now estimate some 450,000 whites, of a total white population of 4.5 million, live below the poverty line and 100,000 are struggling just to survive in places such Coronation Park, a former caravan camp currently home to more than 400 white squatters. Formerly comfortable Afrikaners recently forced to live on the fringes of society see themselves as victims of 'reverse-apartheid' that they say puts them at an even greater disadvantage than the millions of poor black South Africans."

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Are you sure these are'nt addicts?

Poverty is not a racist

@op there is poverty everywhere, even here in the UK and the US there are white people living like that.

@Post

LOL

Karma is a bytch! God don't like ugly. See them looking scruffy and walking around barefooted like people in the village. If whites had settled in South Africa and lived with the native population they met there peacefully rather than oppressing them and acting wickedly towards them, they won't have to deal with reverse apartheid now. They are even lucky that Tata Madiba whilst president of South Africa did not choose to treat them like Mugabe treated the white population in Zimbabwe.

The lesson to be learnt here is that we all reap what we sow. If not now then certainly in the after life. Being hateful or wicked to other people all because they are different from you never pays. They are complaining about reverse apartheid but when the other type of apartheid which favored them was in place, they did not complain. Hmmmm.

@Op, where in South Africa is this?

koastar: @Op, where in South Africa is this?

koastar: @Op, where in South Africa is this?

Their all over S.A now

Ok......................out of thread

Na the nigerian own bad pass ( the nigerian one is worse), we've all seen the pictures.

Open gutters, no electricity, being black and african, etc.

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These ones are just junkies.

Dem no sabi road go house again?

White trash! African version reloaded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWzAdb2wbU

White Poverty (in the New South Africa)

Whatever! There are slums like this in Eastern Europe.

End time things

The 450 000 figure is false, the number of whites in poverty is really small.

Do 400,000 whites live in squatter camps in South Africa? No

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Do 400,000 whites live in squatter camps in South Africa, as claimed in a recent BBC report. Are there really 80 “white squatter camps” dotted around Pretoria? The answer to both is no.

www.africacheck.org/reports/do-400-000-whites-live-in-squatter-camps-in-south-africa-the-answer-is-no/

White south africans are actually better of today than they were 20 years ago..

www.citypress.co.za/columnists/whither-the-whites/

The 1994 transition liberated black South Africans from oppression, but also liberated whites, writes Frans Cronje.

Many whites argue they had a tough time after the 1994 transition, as equity and empowerment policies ensured economic opportunities were closed off to them.
Others argue that poverty and unemployment figures have risen sharply within the white population. The SA Institute of Race Relations has published data that shows the truth is very different.