History of South Africa:

Diversity:
Is a major feature of South Africa, where 11 languages are officially adopted, community leaders are made up of rabis and chieftains. Traditional healers ply their trade around the corner from stockbrokers and where housing ranges from mud huts to palatial homes with swimming pools.

Important facts:
Until 1914 South Africa was ruled by a white minority government which was so determined to hang to power that it took activists most of the last century before they succeeded in their fight to get rid of apartheid and extend democracy to the rest of the people.

The apartheid government:
The white came to power in South Africa the year 1914 and enforced a separation of races with its policy called apartheid. It ensure that black and white people of South Africa should not live in the same communities travel in different buses and stand in their own queues according to their colors. The white government introduced grand social engineering schemes such as resettlement of hundreds of thousand of people. It poisoned and bombed opponents and encouraged trouble in neighboring countries. The apartheid government eventually negotiated itself out of power, and the new leadership encouraged reconciliation.

But the cost of the years of violence in South Africa will be paid for a long time yet, not least in terms of lawlessness, social disruption and lost of education .South Africa faces a major problems, but having held four successful national elections as well as local pulls since the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say in the search for solutions.

Very much Africa super power South Africa has the continent’s biggest economy, though this went into recession in may 2009 following a sharp slowdown in mining and manufacturing sectors. Many South Africans remain poor and unemployment is high a factor blamed for a wave violent attacks against migrant from other countries in 2008 and protests by township residents over poor living conditions in July 2009.
Land redistribution is an ongoing issue. Most of the farmland is still owned by the white people.
Having so far acquired land on a willing buyer, willing seller basis, officials have that large scale expropriation are on the way. The government aims to transfer 30% of farmland to the black people of South Africa by year 2025.
South Africa has the second highest number of HIV/Aids patients in the world,
Around one in seven of its citizens is infected with Hiv. Free antiretroviral drugs are available under a state funded scheme.

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