Nightfall: The Lonely Beggar Wends his Way...
South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate among OECD countries and one of the highest, if not highest, overall unemployment rates. It is also one of the worlds most unequal societies with arguably the highest Gini coefficient among both middle income and developed countries. The streets of both vast megalopolises like Johannesburg and small towns such as Grahamstown are awash with beggars and 'street people', who literally have no life prospects or hopes of better things to come. Here is one such young man - victim of a history and a social structure that he is powerless to alter. His life's possessions are in the plastic bag that he's carrying as he seeks a place of repose for the night. This is the dark side of global capitalism, the dark side of a world of such abundance and plenty. Our moral duty as the privileged (and no one on Flickr is in some ways not 'privileged to help address the needs of others, especially of those who have no resources whatsoever to do so.
Nightfall: The Lonely Beggar Wends his Way...
South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate among OECD countries and one of the highest, if not highest, overall unemployment rates. It is also one of the worlds most unequal societies with arguably the highest Gini coefficient among both middle income and developed countries. The streets of both vast megalopolises like Johannesburg and small towns such as Grahamstown are awash with beggars and 'street people', who literally have no life prospects or hopes of better things to come. Here is one such young man - victim of a history and a social structure that he is powerless to alter. His life's possessions are in the plastic bag that he's carrying as he seeks a place of repose for the night. This is the dark side of global capitalism, the dark side of a world of such abundance and plenty. Our moral duty as the privileged (and no one on Flickr is in some ways not 'privileged to help address the needs of others, especially of those who have no resources whatsoever to do so.