JOHANNESBURG — Perhaps nowhere in today’s South Africa is the country’s inequality on more dramatic display than in the neighboring Johannesburg suburbs of Sandton and Alexandra. “Whites have, in fact, comfortably improved their economic status in post-apartheid South Africa because our economy channels such a big share of national income to the top 10%.” Half of South Africans are in …
Inside the City of Gold’s abandoned vaults Alex Rawlings Much of Johannesburg’s financial district was abandoned for decades - and it provides some fascinating insights into South Africa's troubled history. To understand this city’s past, its present, and what might lie ahead, BBC Future took a tour of Johannesburg’s old financial district with Charlie Moyo and Gerald Garner of Joburg …
