South Africa is still under apartheid
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South Africa is a country on the southernmost tip of the African continent, with the nickname of “A rainbow nation”. There’re around 58 million inhabitants and 11 official languages, marked by several distinct ecosystems including the city of Cape Town, beneath flat-topped Table Mountain. According to the video, the journalists - Dena gives a speech to an educational short documentary, about the fact of what is behind the real South Africa, with the purpose to educate, inform, and explain to the audience, the truth of Cape Town in South Africa.
Cape Town is a symbol of post-apartheid South Africa for the outsiders, the coastal city of the top destination for its diversity, including food, landscapes, and cultures. However, black South Africans stetted in the lasting legacy of apartheid, the system of white minority rule that has left the country’s back majority poor and powerless, which can be said as the main problem in South Africa. The apartheid is designed to keep racial groups separated, referring to the word “apart”, which is between the whites, colored, and blacks citizens. It is officially terminated in 1994, throughout South Africa neighborhoods remained structurally segregated, and the vast majority of black citizens remain locked in probity and lower classes.
The layout of the city gives a striking example, of the clear socioeconomic division between South Africa. Poor and under-resourced living conditions are mostly the black Capetonians, located in Imizamo Yethu the state of the busting black township, barren and informal settlement made up, limited resources such as electricity and running water. On the other hand, just next to it it’s a white suburb, overflowing with greenery. Shacks and government-built homes lived owned by white Capetonians, they even have signs that are written in Xhosa (the language of the black population) of “Dogs Inside”, to warn the black South Africans not to get near. Furthermore, there’s also the grouping of colored, and not just disparity between black and white, but. The color township of Manenburg is on the left while the informal black settlement of Nyanga is on the right and only a street in between. “Colored ” is a centuries-old community of diverse heritage that might be called, “Creole” in the United States or the Caribbean, they’re distinguished from “Africans”, who is the city’s Xhosa speaking black population. It indicates the three levels of social status between these populations, whites in the higher class or middle higher class, who got the power and right, colored in the middle class between, while black in the lower class who lives in slums. Africans (black population) are the vast majority in most South Africa, which stranded 79%, however, in Cape-town colored are the largest group with 42%, followed by black 38.6% and at last white with only 15.7%, (Asians and Indians with 1.4% and others 1.9%).
Apartheid further expanded the policies of white domination and racial segregation that were already in place since the colonial era. By the 1950 Group Area’s act, the government created racially segregated areas and forcibly removed people, such as the blacks and colored, reserved for white people. This is a period, that’s one of the largest mass removals in modern history, at the time of 1950 until 1983. For example, “District 6” is where more than 60000 colored residents lived, also the booming area in
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