SUS1501
Assignment 4 Semester 2 2024
Detailed Solutions, References & Explanations
Unique number: 688400
Due Date: 13 September 2024
So, in assessment 2, we reflected on a particular case involving great wealth - the R77
million a day that the wealthiest South Africans earned on average in the first half of 2024.
In assessment 3, we reflected on very severe poverty and abuse in the supply chain of a
global commodity - cobalt.
In this assessment we are going to think about the possibility that these two issues -great
wealth and great poverty - might be linked by focusing on the proposal in Assessment 1
that:
"The wealth of a few depends on the poverty of many."
To make this possibility really come alive though, we want you to consider two of the
questions in assessment 1 together:
"Of the top 10 wealthiest people (all men), seven are tech billionaires. Their net worth is US$
1.1 trillion or ZAR 19 trillion"
(To put this into a bit of perspective, the South African Government Employee Pension Fund,
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South Africa's biggest asset owner has somewhere between ZARuse
By making 2 and
of thisZAR 3 trillion.)
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