Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. JeanPaul Marat
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The social and economic situation in South Africa has improved since the country's first democratic elections in 1994. The average income for families with children is now at about $1,000 per month, and the unemployment rate is 4%. However, poverty still exists in different forms. Poverty in South Africa is not merely a lack of money. It is a lack of facilities and services that people need to live a fulfilling life.

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