South Africans glaring racial inequality 18 years later

South Africa’s 2011 census results released early this week had no surprises: The country may be Africa’s economic powerhouse, but it is still ravaged by economic inequalities as the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ widens to one of the largest in the world.

The black majority leadership have been in power for the 18 years since the former apartheid nation got its independence, but the wealth and wellbeing of its masses is typically African – unequal.