Poverty in South Africa The statistics on poverty in South Africa are alarming. ... Fifty three percent of the South African population lives below the poverty line, with forty five percent being children below the age of 16. The effects of poverty in South Africa can be seen throughout the country with no one being sheltered from it. ... The extreme poverty in South Africa makes it very diverse. ... Until there is a unified outcry to correct this crippling situation, South Africa will remain poverty stricken and forever divided....

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Poverty cannot be removed from the world. ... Poverty reduction has been a very long and hard battle. ... If efforts are increased in agricultural productivity by providing tax free equipments, seeds and fertilizers to small farmers, they can be dragged above the line of poverty. ... Surely this will not erase poverty from the world map but it will eventually contribute towards a decrease in poverty rate and other social conflicts. ... A lot of efforts have been made to bring people out of poverty. ...

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Identity crisis, poverty, hunger, alcoholism, sexual frustration; all of these are issues which plague Alexie in his childhood and early adulthood. ... Poverty and hunger come hand in hand. ... " those who dreamed in childhood of fishing for salmon...woke up as adults in line for U.S.D.A. commodity food opened up cans of commodities and wept over the rancid meat, forced to eat what stray dogs ignored." (14). " Thomas dreamed about television and hunger he sat, all hungry and lonely White people owned everything: food, houses, clothes, children. ... Along with poverty comes alcoholism. ... Th...

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Sweatshops help to get countries of this nature out of poverty. ... Myerson states that, "In Honduras, where the legal working age is 14, girls toiled 75 hours a week for the 31- cent hourly minimum to make the Kathie Lee Gifford clothing line for Wal-Mart. ...

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