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Title: 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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