South Africa's Bantus

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 6: 37-47

Notes

Among the some 37 independent governments of the world's fastest changing continent, the Republic of South Africa rates special attention for two reasons. Occupying only 472,000 of the continental total of 11,500,000 square miles, the republic is the undisputed "workshop of the continent." Seventy per cent of the free world's gold comes from her mines and 75 per cent of Africa's steel from her mills. Fifty per cent of all the motor vehicles, railroads and telephones operating in the continent are additional proof for South Africa's economic strength. The resulting national income surpassed $7 billion or $420 per capita already ·in 1 963 and 1964 which is not only an African record but compares favorably with countries like Italy or Greece. Of this total, incidentally, an estimated $300 million is used for military preparedness. South Africa's majority people are 11,007,000 black Bantus. In addition, and separated from blacks as well as from whites are 1,502,000 Coloreds, and Mulattos, offspring of racial mixtures of previous centuries, and 487;000 Asians who are mostly Indians.

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