The Jacana Pocket book series provides readers with quick snapshots of South African history. It provides useful background information, equally beneficial for students and the general public interested in learning more about aspects of South African and African history. Most of the series has provided biographical and historical narratives of the anti-apartheid movement but also of pre-apartheid events and history. Colin Bundy’s contribution to this series moves away from this tradition by focusing on South Africa since the end of apartheid.1 This time, Bundy endeavours to uncover just one, but arguably the most discordant, aspect of contemporary South Africa, entitling his piece Poverty in South Africa, Past and Present. Bob Marley perfectly captured the feeling of poor people when he sang “A hungry mob is an angry mob; A hungry man is an angry man.”2 These lyrics continue to be relevant throughout the world and contemporary South Africa. Anger has raged particularly since the ascendency of President Jacob Zuma, but this “rebellion of the poor” has been brewing since the beginning of the new millennium.3 Underlying this frustration has been the realisation of the working class, the unemployed and unemployable poor people that their poverty has not substantially lessened since the end of apartheid. South Africa’s Gini coefficient suggests that since the new millennium it has been “one of

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南非的贫困，过去和现在：Jacana Pocket 的历史

Jacana Pocket 系列丛书为读者提供了南非历史的快速快照。它提供了有用的背景信息，同样有益于有兴趣了解更多南非和非洲历史方面的学生和公众。该系列的大部分内容都提供了反种族隔离运动以及种族隔离前事件和历史的传记和历史叙述。自种族隔离结束以来，科林·邦迪 (Colin Bundy) 对该系列的贡献摆脱了这一传统，将重点放在了南非。 1 这一次，邦迪 (Bundy) 努力揭示当代南非最不和谐的一个方面，并赋予他的作品《贫困》(Poverty in南非，过去和现在。鲍勃·马利 (Bob Marley) 唱“饥饿的暴徒是愤怒的暴徒；一个饥饿的人就是一个愤怒的人。”2 这些歌词在全世界和当代南非仍然具有相关性。尤其是自雅各布祖马总统上台以来，人们的愤怒尤为猖獗，但这种“穷人的反叛”自新千年伊始就一直在酝酿。 3 这种沮丧的背后是工人阶级、失业和失业的穷人的认识自种族隔离结束以来，他们的贫困并未大幅减少。南非的基尼系数表明，自新千年以来，它一直是“ 3 造成这种挫败感的原因是工人阶级、失业和失业的穷人意识到，自种族隔离结束以来，他们的贫困并未大幅减少。南非的基尼系数表明，自新千年以来，它一直是“ 3 造成这种挫败感的原因是工人阶级、失业和失业的穷人意识到，自种族隔离结束以来，他们的贫困并未大幅减少。南非的基尼系数表明，自新千年以来，它一直是“