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Title: South Africa


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South Africa
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History People
  • Most South Africans trace their ancestry to
    Bantu-speaking people
  • Biggest ethnic groups are Sotho, Zulu, and Xhosa
  • 1600sthe Dutch settled in South Africa
  • Known as the Boers (farmers)
  • German, Belgian, and French settlers also came to
    the area
  • These two groups became known as Afrikaners
  • Spoke their own language, Afrikaans

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Afrikaners the British
  • The Afrikaans pushed the native Africans (blacks)
    off the best land
  • Brought laborers from India to work
  • 1800sBritish came to South Africa
  • Discovery of gold and diamonds attracted British
    settlers
  • 1902Boer WarBritish defeated the Afrikaners
  • 1910Afrikaner and British territories became the
    Union of South Africa
  • Part of the British empire ruled by whites (even
    though they were the minority)

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Apartheid
  • African National Congress (ANC)
  • Founded in 1912 by black South Africans to gain
    political power
  • Apartheid
  • Set up by whites in the 1930s
  • System that made it illegal for different races
    or ethnic groups to mix
  • Limited the rights of black South Africans

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Apartheid, cont.
  • Blacks struggled against apartheid in South
    Africa
  • Most of the rest of the world saw apartheid in
    South Africa as unfair
  • United Nations declared that apartheid was a
    crime against humanity
  • Many countries cut trade with S. Africa
  • 1991Apartheid ended
  • S. Africa held its first democratic election
    1994
  • Nelson Mandela was elected as the 1st black
    president

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South Africa Today
  • Resources!!!
  • Worlds largest producer and exporter of gold
  • Also has diamonds, platinum, coal
  • Very industrialized country, but many still live
    in poverty

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South Africas People
  • 79 Black African 9 white
  • 11 official languages
  • Afrikaans, English, Zulu
  • Religion2/3 Christians, other are traditional
    African religions
  • AIDS epidemicone of the hardest hit countries in
    the world
  • 21 of adults are infected with HIV/AIDS
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