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This week's columnist Helen Penn looks at an oasis of good practice in a land of stark inequality I have been working in South Africa recently. It is a very unequal country, and nearly 10 million children (55 per cent) live in families with household incomes of less than 70 a month, a shocking figure.

I have been working in South Africa recently. It is a very unequal country, and nearly 10 million children (55 per cent) live in families with household incomes of less than 70 a month, a shocking figure.

Yet South Africa is also a rich country. The lifestyles of the wealthiest 5 per cent are truly glamorous - spacious mansions, servants, swimming pools and expensive cars.

This inequality is partly historical, and arises out of the apartheid policies when blacks were banished to remote rural areas in pseudo-independent 'homelands'. It is these ex-homelands that are still the poorest places in South Africa.

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