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In a luxury hotel in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Sandton, a well-to-do black South African gets a shoe shine. For the first time ever, the income earned by South Africa's black majority population in 2001 exceeded that of its white minority to stand at 52 percent of the country's total, the South African Institute of Race Relations reports. Black South Africans are thought to make up a quarter of South Africa's richest residents -- itself a group that supplies half of Africa's millionaires. But the good times have not been felt by all: According to the U.S. State Department, a third of all unemployed South Africans are black and an estimated 60 percent of the black South African population lives in poverty.
Photo: Lori Waselchuk/Galbe.com
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