Editing History of South Africa (section)

===Poverty===
{{Main|Poverty in South Africa}}
In 2014, around 47% of (mostly black) South Africans lived in poverty, making it one of the most unequal countries in the world.<ref>James L. Gibson, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150822232932/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/south-africa/2015-02-10/apartheid-s-long-shadow "Apartheid's Long Shadow"],  ''Foreign Affairs'', March/April 2015. Accessed 27 July 2015</ref> Widespread dissatisfaction with the slow pace of socio-economic transformation, government incompetence and maladministration, and other public grievances in the post-apartheid era, precipitated many violent protest demonstrations. In 2007, less than half the protests were associated with some form of violence, compared with 2014, when almost 80% of protests involved violence on the part of the participants or the authorities.<ref>DM Powell, M O'Donovan and J De Visser, [http://mlgi.org.za/talking-good-governance/20150219%20Civic%20Protest%20Barometer%20Published%20%20DP.pdf Civic Protests Barometer 2007–2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518084350/http://mlgi.org.za/talking-good-governance/20150219%20Civic%20Protest%20Barometer%20Published%20%20DP.pdf |date=18 May 2015 }}, Cape Town: Community Law Centre, University of Western Cape, 2015. Accessed 9 May 2015</ref> The slow pace of transformation also fomented tensions within the [[Tripartite Alliance|tripartite alliance]] between the ANC, the Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.<ref>Independent Online, [http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/spat-within-tripartite-alliance-runs-deep-1.226909#.Vhpwluyqqko "Spat within tripartite alliance runs deep"], 14 November 2004. Accessed 12 October 2015</ref>