SUS1501 Assignment 4 Due 5 April 2024

ASSESSMENT 04:
FAIR’S FAIR
So, in assessment 2, we reflected on a particular case involving great wealth – Bob van Dijk and his
R 1.9 billion payout in 2018/2019. 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), eight are tech billionaires. Their net worth is US$
1.1 trillion or ZAR 22 trillion”
(To put this into a bit of perspective, the South African Government Employee Pension Fund, South
Africa’s biggest asset owner has somewhere between ZAR 2 and ZAR 3 trillion

STEP 1

“IS THIS, OKAY?”