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South Africa

History

• 1700’s-1800’s - Africans fight with Europeans

• Zulus battled British but lost

• Boer War - British fought Dutch farmers (Boers) - British won in what today is South Africa.

Apartheid

• Complete separation of the races

• Separate beaches, hospitals, schools, neighborhoods

• Whites had complete control of the land

Apartheid

Apartheid

Apartheid

Apartheid

Apartheid

Mandela

• Black leader who helped end apartheid

• Became the first President of S. Africa

• Spent 27 years in Prison

• Hero of S. Africa today

Pressure

• Economic Sanctions end Apartheid

• Peaceful Revolution

South Africa Today

• Double identity

• Prosperous upper and upper middle class

• Modern factories and farms

• Many live in shantytowns

South Africa

South Africa

Whites in South Africa

Diseases in South Africa

• Cholera - lack of clean water, inadequate sanitation

• Malaria - from mosquitoes

• Tuberculosis - Respiratory infection

• 70% of AIDS cases

Highest rates of Aids

• Swaziland - 39% - life expectancy 39 years

• Lesotho - 29%, 34 years

• Botswana - 37%, 33 years

• Zimbabwe - 25%, 39 years

Aids in Africa