## Human Rights --- background-image="img/human-rights.jpg"

Political rights, Welfare, Health

* Basic political freedoms but some cases of political repression * Welfare needs some improvements * Problems with racial disparities still exist * Lack of resources and beds in hospitals, problems with Malaria and HIV/AIDS * decline in political tolerance * voters dependence on the state precludes their ability to vote based on ideological platforms * 25 percent of South Africans receive some form of government welfare grants * racial disparities: struggle to obtain basic needs <> gated communities --- background-image="img/rainbow-flag.jpg" ### Sexual and LGBT rights * Issues concerning gender inequality in court cases * Many cases of rape * Same-sex marriage legalized 2006 * Jacob Zuma's Rape Trial in 2006 * 500.000 women raped every year * first country to include intersex people in anti-discrimination law