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KIM POLLEY | South Africa keeps fighting inequality at the wrong end | SA News

South Africa’s inequality debate is loud, familiar and still oddly incomplete.

The late economist Mike Schüssler believed we are looking in the wrong place. His argument was that a large part of inequality takes shape long before anyone enters the labour market. It begins inside the household.

That is not a moral point. It is a structural one. If a child grows up in a household where one adult is expected to earn, care, supervise, manage stress, absorb shocks and somehow still build a future, that child begins life with less support than one raised in a household where those burdens are shared more widely. That difference does not stay contained inside the home. It shows up later in…

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