Unpicking inequality in South Africa
The racial income gap has narrowed since 1994. But the gains went largely to the black elite
JOHNNY MILLER, a photographer, began taking drone footage of South African cities in 2016. Shots from Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg depict adjoining neighbourhoods—but different worlds. On one side of a photograph might be a verdant suburb spattered with azure swimming pools; on the other a slum with tightly packed shacks.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Not so black and white”
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