other developing countries. There is a long history of racial segregation and discrimination with respect to political rights, land distribution, employment opportunities and access to basic services. These factors have led South Africa to the state of poverty of which it is today. The relationship between the people and its political leaders has grown sparse and the effects on each person living in poverty are longing. Case Study Hanli Venda is a single mother of three living in Peitersburg, South Africa. Her family has lived there for generations. She was born into a family of wheat producers and works with her siblings on their familys 300 acres wheat farm. The money brought in at the local rural market is that enough to barely feed her family at the best of times. Her children have been a part of the work load since the age of 3. The work is hard but the satisfaction of continuing the tradition of culture ways heavily in her heart. Over the past months, the viewing of others around her leaving their heritage to work for a local industrial developer at a nearby factory, has brought provoking thoughts of doing the same. She, more the rest of the family regards the farm as a cornerstone of the Venda family and must evaluate the effects of pursuing a more developed method of living. Primarily Hanli acknowledges that times have changed for her people and that at times the reserved cultural method of living seems tiresome. She understands that the developing world is a way of life. The affects on her personally is all that she can notice as the majority of resources providing insight on the entire effects of development with industry are scarce in her traveling region. The immediate thoughts of turning her back on her heritage run through her head out in the field. She has been brought up in, and lives in poverty. The area of South Africa where Hanli lives has a dual economy. This occurs when the classes of low and medi...
