Power and Poverty: Inside South Africa's Inequality Crisis

Set against South Africa hosting the G20 summit, this documentary examines one of the most unequal societies on Earth and the deep divide between wealth and poverty. Reporters speak with ordinary citizens whose daily lives reveal the human cost of that gap, from crowded townships to gated affluence. It traces how history, politics, and economics keep the divide in place decades after apartheid. The result is a grounded, human portrait of a nation still wrestling with fairness. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

Courtesy of BBC World Service on YouTube. Watch on YouTube ↗

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