In terms of the South African municipal indigent policies, the aspirants are economically self-sufficient and could be classified as middle class. However, the aspirants don’t earn enough to ...

Henning Melber, The African middle class(es) – in the middle of what?, Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 151 (March 2017), pp. 142-154 ... Political Identity Repertoires of South ...

Additionally, Discovery Bank added in its SpendTrend 2024 report that middle-income South Africans earn between R100,000 and R350,000 a year, which is around R8,000 to R29,000 per month.

Whether it's selling pensions, pasta or toothpicks, investors in Africa have been targeting the booming middle class. But a year of diving commodity prices has exposed how much the continent, ...