Health Issues in Africa

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Health Issues in Africa

• Poverty, lack of resources
• Inadequate health facilities, lack of doctors
• Mosquito-spread diseases Malaria
• Diseases spread through contact with flies,
  snails
• HIV/AIDS (see map on p. 238)

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South Africa - demographics

• Black Africans 37.7 million (80 of population)
  - Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, others
• Europeans 4.4 million (9 of population)
  DutchAfrikaners, English
• Coloureds 4.2 million (9 of population)
• Asians/Indians 1.2 million (2 of population)

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Important dates - South Africa

• 1652 Dutch settle southwestern Cape
• C. 1800 British gain control of Cape
• 1830s - Afrikaners move inland, ongoing
  conflict with Zulus
• 1860s - 1880s discovery of diamonds and gold
• 1899 1902 Boer Wars conflict between British
  and Afrikaners

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• 1910 Independent Union of South Africa,
  white-minority government
• 1948 Afrikaner-led government takes power,
  begins implementing APARTHEID
• 1994 first free elections for all South
  Africans, Nelson Mandela elected president

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APARTHEID

• A legal and geographical system of racial
  separation and exclusion

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Components of Apartheid

• Ban on marriages between whites and non-whites
• Rigid system of racial classification
• pass laws restrict free movement of blacks
• Establishment of homelands forced movement of
  Blacks to homelands
• Segregated townships in the cities

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