SA’s richest people live … where?
By Laura Grant —
The taxpayers in the tiny Northern Cape municipality of Gamagara, home of the Sishen iron ore mine and camel thorn trees, and eMalahleni, in the heart of the Mpumalanga coal mining area, earn among the highest average incomes in the country – more than people living in much bigger municipalities such as Cape Town and Durban.
Those in Gamagara and eMalahleni earned an average taxable income of between R250 000 and R320 000 a year, according to data released by the treasury and the South African Revenue Service for the 2013 tax year, the latest figures available.
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