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05/07/2004:

"South Africa income disparities widening"

South African income disparities have widened in the face of HIV/AIDS, an inadequate social safety net and the economy's inability to create jobs, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

The UN’s 2003 Human Development Report for South Africa said that according to the Gini coefficient – a widely used measurement of inequality – income disparities grew between 1995 and 2001. www.lexpress.mu