The gap between rich and poor is widening in South Africa, threatening to sweep away the gains brought about by democracy since 1994, Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop ofCape Town, has warned.
"Most [people] are languishing in the wilderness," the archbishop said of the slow pace of wealth redistribution since the end of white rule 13 years ago. Using a Biblical analogy, he said South Africans had crossed the Red Sea in their struggle against apartheid but that very few had reached the promised land.
