South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said.
In a speech delivered at the University of Stellenbosch
on Saturday, Madonsela said the country was the most unequal society
despite the constitutional promises which include the substantive notion
of equality.
"Compounding the situation is that poverty and
unemployment have worsened and also the fact that, that too follows the
contours of racial, gender and other forms of structural inequality or
discrimination."
She said as long as there was injustice somewhere, the country and the world could not have peace.
"We may not be paragons of non-discrimination as that
is impossible [given that we are] products of a society where the
hierachisation of difference is entrenched through socialisation from
birth," she said.
"All we need to do is play our part in our respective spaces as earnestly as possible." (SAPA)
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