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The article informs on in different ways rich and poor are fending for themselves in South Africa. It mentions that police cannot control the crime and the community is angry, diepsloot has the fourth-highest rate of violent assault of any police precinct in the country, and addiction to nyaope- a mix of cheap heroin, cannabis, antiretroviral drugs and dilutants-is common.

The article highlights the results of economic research on South African inequality from 1993 to 2019 published by academics Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin in 2021. There was an increase in the percentage of income of the top 10% of earners while the average income of the poorest declined by more than 30% after inflation. It cites the effect of value-added tax on poor people. Also noted is attribution of the narrowing of racial income gap to the African elite.

Comments on the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development held in September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Contention that topics discussed, such as new aid packages from rich countries, were rehashed from previous meetings; Allegation that the meeting was not supposed to raise new issues, but consider well-known problems; Promise made to reduce the number of people living with inadequate water and sanitation; Effort to reduce the number of people living in absolute poverty.

The article discusses xenophobia in South Africa, focusing on the murder of and violence against poor immigrants. Topics include the deployment of soldiers various centers of violence around Johannesburg, South Africa; the failure to prosecute or convict perpetrators of violence against foreigners or their businesses; anger among South African poor about unemployment and lack of opportunities.

This article looks at banking in South Africa and the effort to incorporate more South Africans into the country's banking system. According to the FinMark Trust, an independent body promoting broader access to financial services, over half of South Africans over the age of sixteen, close to 16 million people, do not have a bank account. The main reason is the lack of regular income, a common affliction in a country where over 40% of people are unemployed. Without a salary slip, it is difficult to gain access to banking services, and fees are hard to bear. Without much money, many see no point in having an account anyway. And it is little help that banks and automatic teller machines (ATMs) are rare in poor areas. South African banks, however, have signed a charter committing themselves to do their bit to redress the inequalities inherited from apartheid.