## Human Rights
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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
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### 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