but to many experts, tim tebeila is one of all too few success stories. aubrey matshiqi is a political scientist at a johannesburg-based think tank. >> south africa has become one of the most unequal societies in the world. in fact, in the past, prior to 1994, the inequality was between black and white . but today inequality has taken both an interracial and an intraracial dimension. so you have black people who have benefited quite a lot since 1994, but you still have the majority who are still plagued by conditions of poor social and economic conditions. >> reporter: in fact, black unemployment in south africa hovers around 27% if you don't count people who've completely dropped out of the work force. meanwhile, whites-- 12% of south africa's 50 million people-- still occupy nearly 80% of all professional jobs. white unemployment is around 5%. whites have lost jobs in the public sector, mostly to blacks, many to a.n.c. members. they've also lost some private industry jobs because of affirmative action. there's been particularly stiff resistance to the s