South Africa has no major navigable rivers, and this has always complicated the transportation of the country’s many natural resourcesResources […]
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South Africa has always been one of the richest and most developed countries in Africa. During the 1980s, the lifestyle […]
Read MoreThe cultures of the Blacks
South Africa officially had ten Black cultural groups. These groups were segregated and forced to live in ten different homelands. […]
Read MoreThe cultures of the Whites
Although official policy said that South African Whites were part of the same community, in reality, their economic status, their […]
Read More“Coloured” and Asian cultures
“Coloured” culture As you have learned, in 1980 there were four ethnic groups in South Africa: Whites, Blacks, Asians and […]
Read MoreLife under apartheid
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word for separation or setting apart. The objective of apartheid was to separate Whites, Blacks and […]
Read MoreHealth and education
The following is a portrait of two ten-year-old boys who lived under apartheid in South Africa around 1980. Both were […]
Read MoreDaily violence
In March 1960, anti-apartheid activists organized demonstrations to protest, among other things, against the introduction of a compulsory identification document […]
Read MoreThe Whites
Only about 16% of South Africa’s total populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.” We say populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.” We say population when we talk about a group... when we talk […]
Read MoreThe Blacks
The government called this group Bantu, the name of their language, but they referred to themselves as Africans. They were […]
Read MoreThe “Coloured” and Asians
South African Coloured group This group had roots in contacts between various Black populations and the first European immigrants. They […]
Read MoreNelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)
Nelson Mandela was born into the Royal Family of the Xhosa nation, the second largest in South Africa. He was […]
Read MoreSteve Biko (1946 – 1977)
Born in a Black township in a politically active family, Steve Biko himself was very active from an early age. […]
Read MoreAn unequal population of 26 million
In 1980, South Africa had a populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.” We say populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.” We say population when we talk about a group... when we talk about […]
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