MATRIX OF THREATS AND CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL COHESION ANDNATION-BUILDING THREATS & CHALLENGES EVIDENCE SOURCE EXPLANATION RANKING SLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH AND Averaging 3,7% over Development Structural resource-based HIGH TRANSFORMATION the last decade and indicators and constraints and global downturn dropping 2011 Budget Speech UNEMPLOYMENT At 29,9% last Development Job recreation initiatives HIGH quarter 2011 and Indicators and outstripping labour growth decreasing from 30% national statistics highs POVERTY & INEQUALITY At a mean Africans National Persistence of disparities HIGH earn ± 10% of the development mean income of indicators and whites South Africa Survey HEALTH HIV/AIDS Development Poverty, hunger HIGH Tuberculosis indicators lifestyle, inadequate service Life expectancy EDUCATION Low primary Development Inequalities in learning conditions HIGH performance indicators and teaching skills and secondary Africa completion Survey HOUSING&LAND Development Cost of land MEDIUM indicators South Redistribution Africa Survey CRIME &SAFETY 25% of citizens Development Unemployment, HIGH polled experiences Indicators
MATRIX OF THREATS AND CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL COHESION ANDNATION-BUILDING THREATS & CHALLENGES EVIDENCE SOURCE EXPLANATION RANKING SLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION Averaging 3,7% over the last decade and dropping Development indicators and 2011 Budget Speech Structural resource-based constraints and global downturn HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT At 29,9% last quarter 2011 and decreasing from 30% highs Development Indicators and national statistics Job recreation initiatives outstripping labour growth HIGH POVERTY & INEQUALITY At a mean Africans earn ± 10% of the mean income of whites National development indicators and South Africa Survey Persistence of disparities HIGH HEALTH HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis Life expectancy Development indicators Poverty, hunger lifestyle, inadequate service HIGH EDUCATION Low primary performance and secondary completion Development indicators Africa Survey Inequalities in learning conditions and teaching skills HIGH HOUSING&LAND Development indicators South Africa Survey Cost of land Redistribution MEDIUM CRIME &SAFETY 25% of citizens polled experiences Development Indicators Unemployment, HIGH
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