FILE PHOTO: Social grant recipients stand in a queue outside a post office, as joblessness takes its toll in Meadowlands, a suburb of Soweto, South Africa, February 24, 2022. Picture taken February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party is being forced to confront a problem that has bedevilled the country since apartheid ended 28 years ago: how to reduce record gross inequality and poverty that hurts the Black majority more than the white minority.
While the issue has never gone away, it has come to a head after the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed jobs and livelihoods.
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