South Africa's dirty secret: One in four live in 'extreme poverty'
'The past five years, notably between 2011 and 2015, have been a rough economic roller-coaster'
23 August 2017 - 07:45
Meet the face of poverty in South Africa - a black African girl living in a rural settlement in the Eastern Cape with no formal education. This is according to a Stats SA report measuring poverty trends between 2006 and 2015. The report, released on Tuesday, showed that in 2015 a quarter of the population, 13.8million people, were living in extreme poverty and below the food poverty line of R17.48 per person a day.
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