首页
登录
职称英语
【1】 [br] 【8】 [originaltext] White neighborhoods are becoming darker in comple
【1】 [br] 【8】 [originaltext] White neighborhoods are becoming darker in comple
游客
2023-12-12
56
管理
问题
【1】 [br] 【8】
White neighborhoods are becoming darker in complexion and more expensive. Analysts say that soaring house prices and booming car sales are being fueled by an upwardly mobile black middle class emerging from the ashes of apartheid.
Blacks, who make up about 75 percent of South Africa’s 46.6 million people, are moving from the periphery of the economy into the mainstream thanks to policies aimed at redressing decades of injustice.
Statistics compiled by the independent Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) show that the black middle class has swelled to 7.8 percent of the total population in 2000 from 3.3 percent in 1994.
"The development of a black middle class was deliberately stunted under segregation and apartheid," said the HSRC’s Roger Southall.
Although official figures are not available, analysts say the black middle class is behind the retail sales boom and strong house price growth.
Before 1994, blacks were precluded by legislation from owning properties in suburbs exclusively reserved for whites and had limited access to bank credit.
But the face of the former white suburbs has changed as blacks increasingly move from the townships in search of security and better municipal services. Living in posh suburbs is seen by many as a status symbol.
"The black middle class is contributing strongly to the growth of the property market and other sectors of the economy," says Jacques du Toit, an economist at banking group Absa.
House prices rose by an average of 30.3 percent in real terms in 2004, the highest since 1967, and business is also booming for auto traders, with a growing number of sales attributed to black buyers.
选项
答案
increasingly
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3267220.html
相关试题推荐
GeneralBanKi-moonisurgingtheBurmesegovernmentto[originaltext][7]Th
Whatisthemainideaofthenewsitem?[originaltext][6]IsraeliJusticeMi
WhichofthefollowingstatementsisINCORRECTaboutMissChan?[originaltext]M:
Whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?[br][originaltext]TheUnitedSt
PresidentObamaisnowfocusingon______[originaltext]PresidentObamaspen
WhichofthefollowingstatementsisTRUE?[originaltext]ThesmalltownofAlaK
Tensionshaveflaredbecause[br][originaltext]Thelatestattack,onanEv
Tensionshaveflaredbecause[originaltext]Thelatestattack,onanEvangeli
Whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?[originaltext]TheUSspaceagency
Theexpertsadvisethatwomenget[br][originaltext]Sometimesnewheahhad
随机试题
[originaltext]IrunadesignstudioinNewYork.Everysevenyears,Iclose
[originaltext]AlinkwhichexistsbetweenLondonandShanghaiisaMemorandumo
[originaltext]M:Doyouknowthethingthat’salwaysstruckmeasoddaboutopi
Everyyear,millionsofpeoplewanttoloseweightorgetintoshapebutlac
当时,若均是比x高阶的无穷小,则α的取值范围是()
乙公司年初仅有发行在外的普通股10000万股,当年7月1日定向增发普通股20
有关试带法尿蛋白测定,错误的是A.采用指示剂蛋白误差原理B.主要与球蛋白反应C.
蛋白尿是指尿液中蛋白定性阳性且蛋白质超过A.100mg/24hB.150m
防排烟系统调试中,排烟防火阀的调试包括()。A.手动和电动装置应灵敏、可靠,阀
属于土方路基工程施工中常见质量控制关键点的是()。A.集料的级配和石料的压碎值
最新回复
(
0
)