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SOUTH AFRICA: CLASSISM AND APARTHEID

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Directions: South Africa. Your wiki should include the following: Types of groups (classes)in your selected country, a description of each group, educational opportunities for each group, political affiliations for each group, how women are perceived in each group, chances of moving from group to another. Each topic must have a page of its own. You must also include a biography of each member of your group, along with pictures and at least one chart.

Group 3: South Africa

1. Types of groups (classes) 2. Description of each group 3. Educational opportunities for each group 4. Political affiliations for each group 5. How are women perceived in each group 6. Chances of moving from one group to another 7. Biography of each member of your group 8. Pictures of what 9. Chart on what ?

Africa is a Wonderful Country South Africa is a beautiful country Nelson Mandela is the former President of South Africa http://www.southafrica.info/about/education/education.htm#bands http://www.sahistory.org.za/politics_and_society http://www.jyu.fi/viesti/verkkotuotanto/kp/sa/peop_ethnicgrps.shtml http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1031/p01s03-woaf.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/pers-a27.shtml

Classism Coloured South Africans

South Africans are adept at broadly classifying one another as black, white, Indian or colored, despite often complicated lineages. Some colored families, especially in the Cape Town region, have Malay origins, courtesy of the historic slave trade that brought Asians to South Africa; others have roots in the local indigenous Khoi community. Our discriminatory skills are so fine-grained that Barack Obama would not pass as colored here; the U.S. president is “biracial.”

Colored communities lived in their own neighborhoods — most still do — and spoke Afrikaans as their mother-tongue, a language similar to Dutch and dissimilar to indigenous African languages. We were not white, and we were not treated as white. More money was spent on us than on the average black African community but less than on the average white one. Thus the racial hierarchy was legally, politically and economically entrenched.

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/in-south-africa-after-apartheid-colored-community-is-the-big-loser/#

http://www.southafrica.info/about/democracy/polparties.htm South Africa has 13 political parties

Education in ZUMA (South Africa) is paying off http://www.southafrica.info/about/education/sona-090212c.htm

White South Africans include:

The Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch, German and French Huguenot who came to the country from the 17th century onwards. English-speakers, descendants of settlers from the British Isles who came to the country from the late 18th century onwards. Immigrants and descendents of immigrants from the rest of Europe, including Greeks, Portuguese, Eastern European Jews, Hungarians and Germans. http://www.southafrica.info/about/people/population.htm#groups#ixzz1rUaqGebl

National population estimates Table 6 shows the mid-year estimates by population group and sex. The mid-year population is estimated at 49,99 million. The Black Africans are in the majority (39,68 million) and constitute just more than 79% of the total South African population. The white population is estimated at 4,58 million, the coloured population at 4,42 million and the Indian/Asian population at 1,30 million. Fifty-one per cent (25,66 million) of the population is female. Table 6: Mid-year estimates by population group and sex, 2010 Male Female Total Population group Number Percentage of total population Number Percentage of total population Number Percentage of total population African 19 314 500 79,4 20 368 100 79,4 39 682 600 79,4 Coloured 2 124 900 8,7 2 299 200 9,0 4 424 100 8,8 Indian/Asian 646 600 2,7 653 300 2,5 1 299 900 2,6 White 2 243 000 9,2 2 341 700 9,1 4 584 700 9,2 Total 24 329 000 100,0 25 662 300 100, 0 49 991 300 100,0 Staticts on South Africa http://www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com/images/stories/july2010/SA_population_estimate_2010.pdf

APARTHEID LEGISLATIVE ACTS AND LAWS: http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/segregationist-legislation-timeline-1950-1959 (Other segregationist legislation timeline links are included on the right side of this page.)

BANTU EDUCATION: http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/sidebar.php?id=3