However, the legacy of racial segregation and the mismanagement of the post-apartheid regime continue to plague modern South African society. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has made great strides toward becoming a more prosperous and equal society. Hailed “the world’s most unequal country” by TIME Magazine in 2019, economic inequality in South Africa is an issue deeply rooted in the country’s colonial roots, its segregationist apartheid-past, and the persistence of physical geographies intended to, and continue to, divide the developing nation’s social landscape (Pomerantz, 2019). The neighboring settlements lay 14 km east of Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest and most affluent city. Image 1.1 Aerial photo of Primrose (left), a middle-class suburb, and Makause (right), an informal township (slum) without streets, sewage, or running water.
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