Talk:Wealth inequality in South Africa

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Title; missed changes in demographics[edit]

Two suggestions for those better-informed on the topic than I:

While the article is titled "Wealth inequality", much of the article is actually about income—might I suggest changing the title to "Economic inequality in South Africa"?
The article seems to have missed the rapid growth of a black middle class,^[1] as well as a huge increase in the number and proportion of educated and wealthy blacks:

In 2004 whites, who are 8% of the population, made up 86% of those in the top bracket of living standards. By 2015 that share had fallen to 49%. Blacks made up 30%… [I]n 1996 blacks made up just 8% of company executives, by 2015 they made up 41%. Before the end of apartheid, South African universities produced 44 white engineering graduates for every black one; by 2014, there were two blacks for every white."^[2]

Thanks! Elle Kpyros (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "A toast to South Africa's black middle class". Africa Renewal. 2013-11-19. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
^ "South Africa's inequality is no longer about race". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

[1] "A toast to South Africa's black middle class". Africa Renewal. 2013-11-19. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

[2] "South Africa's inequality is no longer about race". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

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