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Devastation: Distance between white workers and black African workers shows how the racial order graded oppression rather than equalised it. Photo: Supplied
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White workers earn 380%  more than blacks

On Workers’ Day 2026, the typical white worker still stands far above the typical black African worker in a labour market built through conquest, land theft and racial rule

  • Gillian Schutte
7 min read