Let us not forget that South Africa is both a deeply rural country (Trankei/KZN) and a ultra modern and industrialised country (JHB and CT), so if you take the traditional measurement of wealth (which scores traditional rural environments very poorly, and scores "cyber economies" highly) you will see a great discrepancy between the two different economies. The reason the rest of Africa does not have such a high GINI coefficient is simply because they do not have high levels of industrialization (and a long history of capitalised economies). If you want to, in Africa at least, live in a less equal country, live in the DRC or Rwanda, but remember the average salary will be much lower for most occupations. Remembers professionals normally are paid similar salaries world wide, and South Africa with the most active and modern economy in Africa will draw these people to CT and Joburg, thus accounting for much of the "top" salaries which make South Africa disproportionally wealth (in the African context) and disproportionally unequal. We should not really be worried about the GINI co-efficient but rather where the mean and the mode are and how compact the distribution is once the "outliers" are removed from the equation. Alternatively the best way to make South Africa "equal" is to simply close down the mining industry, ISCOR, the heavy industry, cut the electricity often and make it incredibly difficult to set up venture investments . Wait isn't that government policy at the moment
