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PROBLEM

INTRODUCTION

Presentation of the problem

Hi. We are Nicolas Barros, Xilene Diaz and Daniela Monsalve, we are studying Law
and Economy, respectively.
Johannesburg is the biggest and most populated city in South África. This city generate
the sixteen (60) percent of PIB in the country and employs twelve (20) percent of the
national workforce. The cost of living of the inhabitants of the city is lower compared to
the other first cities in the world. Its known as the financial capital of South África. The
main industries include finance, mining, manufacturing, health, transportation, etc.
Mainly, the population of this city is four point nine (4.9) million of people between
nineteen and thirty nine (19 - 39) years old. This city has suffered historically and, still
suffers for the unequal situation between black and white people, called "Apartheid", this
started on 1948, and finished on 1994, but today Johannesburg lives in a unequal situation
where majority of black people feel the Apartheid era haven't finished yet. The problem
of this city is important for our group because we can compare it with Colombia, since in
this country there is still a lot of inequality.

BACKGROUND

Supporting information

From 1948 to 1994, the South African government enforced the social and legal
segregation of people of color from white people through the Apartheid. On paper it
appeared to call for equal development and freedom of cultural expression, but the way
it was implemented made this impossible. The justification for this was based on a racist
system of classification established during the Imperial -Colonialist era and continually
benefited the white, colonist, upper classes of society while oppressing and exploiting the
native, lower class, people of color. Some rules in Apartheid was:
1. All Black South Africans were required to carry identification passes with their
fingerprints on it when visiting "white" spaces.
2. Whites and people of color were not allowed to marry.
3. Education was segregated not just by race or color but also by the quality of
education, with people of color essentially being trained for lives as laborers.
4. Most people of color were also denied their right to vote, and so did not have a
say in making changes to this system which continually oppressed them.
5. The people of color, now considered citizens of the homelands, had their South
African citizenship revoked and now had no rights.
Government through the Apartheid cruelly and forcibly separated people, and had a
fearsome state apparatus to punish those who disagreed. Also, many were kept just above
destitution because they were 'non-white'.

SOLUTION

PROPOSAL: Reduce the effects of the apartheid: inequality- A plan of life

Step 1

Improve the opportunity to access to a good education for everybody, this should start
with children, support them all time until they can choose in their adult life what they
want to do to help in the construction of the society.

Step 2

In the adult life of the citizens, encourage people to access the university, in order to
generate new and better job offers.

Step 3

At the same time, stimulate private initiative to increase the demand of work.

CONCLUSIONS

In conclusion, with the end of apartheid in 1994 the people of South Africa anticipated
profound social and economic change. Yet twenty-five years later, much of the population
lacks access to proper medical care and education. Despite improved access to clean
water, housing, and roads many South Africans feel that too little has changed since the
apartheid era. The "rainbow nation" is still racially divided in its electoral behavior, and
the income gap between blacks and whites is greater than it was in 1994. Leading political
figures in the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), are often accused of
corruption. New political groups are calling for the nationalization and expropriation of
land and resources from the white minority. Nevertheless, the constitution enshrines the
rule of law, and has popular support across all racial divides. We can see Sandton known
as Africa’s richest square mile, and Alexandra, a onetime home to Nelson Mandela, is a
squalid, cramped and crime-infested black township.Many of its residents stream into
Sandton every day on a bridge over a highway to work in upscale shops or homes.