As a tourists in South Africa, you may have an impression, that’s a rich and modern country with many extremely poor people.
A few facts:
-An unemployment rate is very high and many South Africans live on less than 1 USD a day.
-There are many immigrants from poorer neighboring countries who came to South Africa hoping to improve their situation, but usually they are as poor as they were before leaving their own countries.
-The material status, is unfortunately often connected with the skin color.