Explain Social Conditions Pertain To Poor Housing And Living Conditions In South Africa

Social conditions pertain to poor housing and living conditions, and low or sub-standard education. ( Mc Cafferty, 2003). The poor housing conditions includes the notion of slums and squatters, which are deteriorated houses, which lack basic services and have poor living conditions of which the organized criminal groups target people to recruit them into their operations in promise of a better house, and better living standards, of which the people will not decline and this helps organized crime to survive and grow gradually. Furthermore the issue of low or sub-standard education which has been evident in South Africa, where only 35% of the children in the schools can read, with results ranging from 12% in Mpumalanga to a "high" 43% in Western Cape (Bloch, 2011). This shows that indeed the quality of education being offered is very low or sub-standard and at this rate, it is impossible to build individuals who will be
These youths are targeted by syndicates to traffic drugs and as according to the recent statistics, there has been an increase in the number of young people from South Africa who have been arrested in foreign countries as they try to smuggle drugs into or out of these countries (Tsotetsi, 2012). There has been a report of levels of unemployment in South Africa being critically high, despite the country’s status as an upper middle income country (Frye, 2006), and also in 2004, about 41% of working age people were unemployed as according to the expanded definition of unemployment, and 26.2% according to the narrow definition of unemployment as stated by Frye