A shift in racial hiring practices and the recent global economic crisis means many white South Africans have fallen on hard times. Researchers now estimate some 450 000 whites, of a total white population of 4.5-million, live below the poverty line and 100,000 are struggling just to survive in places such Coronation Park, a former caravan camp currently home to more than 400 white squatters. Pictures taken in March, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly