| History of South Africa: | | | | resettlement of hundreds of thousand of people. It |
| Diversity is a major feature of South Africa, where | | | | poisoned and bombed opponents and encouraged |
| 11 languages are officially adopted, community leaders | | | | trouble in neighboring countries. The apartheid |
| are made up of rabis and chieftains. Traditional | | | | government eventually negotiated itself out of |
| healers ply their trade around the corner from | | | | power, and the new leadership encouraged |
| stockbrokers and where housing ranges from mud | | | | reconciliation. |
| huts to palatial homes with swimming pools. | | | | But the cost of the years of violence will be paid for |
| Important facts: | | | | a long time yet, not least in terms of lawlessness, |
| Until 1914 South Africa was ruled by a white minority | | | | social disruption and lost of education.South Africa |
| government which was so determined to hang to | | | | faces a major problems, but having held four |
| power that it took activists most of the last century | | | | successful national elections as well as local pulls since |
| before they succeeded in their fight to get rid of | | | | the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears |
| apartheid and extend democracy to the rest of the | | | | to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say |
| people. | | | | in the search for solutions. |
| The apartheid government: | | | | Most of the farmland is still owned by the white |
| The white came to power in South Africa the year | | | | people. |
| 1914 and enforced a separation of races with its | | | | Having so far acquired land on a willing buyer, willing |
| policy called apartheid. It ensure that black and white | | | | seller basis, officials have that large scale |
| people should not live in the same communities travel | | | | expropriation are on the way. The government aims |
| in different buses and stand in their own queues | | | | to transfer 30% of farmland to the black people by |
| according to their colors. The white government | | | | year 2025. |
| introduced grand social engineering schemes such as | | | | |