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Johannesburg Journal; South Africa's New Poor: White and Bewildered

White poverty has become new and growing problem in South Africa, where many whites who benefitted from racist employment practices of past now find themselves in dire economic straits; many face increasing competition for first time, particularly at lower rungs of work force, as companies that previously refused to hire blacks now seek them out in economy which is shedding thousands of jobs; between 1995 and 1999, ratio of unemployed whites increased from 3.

By Rachel L. Swarns