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    the Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, or “Africa’s 100 years war”, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa tribes and European settlers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa (Jay, 2010). The Frontier or Xhosa Wars stretched over the time range from 1779 to 1879. According to South African History Online, the ever-changing frontiers of the Eastern Cape, was to be the set for a truly epochal smash between two worlds. These two worlds are the “white and European,…

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    Recently, a bank called Citygroup ranked South Africa as the richest country in the world in terms of mineral and natural resources. The value was estimated around 2.5 trillion. Shocking statistics reveal that South African whites and western foreigners own as much as 80% of it, which makes south Africa unquestionable the most racially unequal country. Already in 1455, the Portuguese people discovered South Africa, a nation that had almost unlimited access to valuable, material resources. The…

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    South Africa has been most severely affected by the HIV epidemic, thereby having the highest HIV prevalence in the world (Pettifor et. al, 2011). When HIV was first discovered in South Africa, it affected a lot of the urban populations and spread to the rural parts of South Africa. Further, studies have found that HIV prevalence is much higher is urban townships and urban informal settings which are characterized by their poor economic infrastructures and larger social densities (Kalichman et.…

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    statistics of South Africa, the unemployment rate of South Africa increased from 25.50 percent in the second quarter of 2014 and 25.20 percent in the first quarter. The average rate of unemployment in South Africa is 25.27 percent from 2000 to 2014. Mulligan (2010: xii) states that “poverty remains disproportionately a black problem in south Africa”. She says that the black population has a higher level of poverty than other racial groups. Women are mostly affected by poverty in South Africa.…

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    HIV/AIDS in South Africa South Africa’s HIV/AIDS percentage raised to 18 percent of the population. AIDS in South Africa is more prevalent than anywhere else in the world. The high percentage of HIV/AIDS has several different causes including: poor hygiene, poor medical practices, and sex trafficking. These infections are not only a problem for adults, but children have been having to raise themselves because their parents are not alive anymore. South Africa needs to improve the health care…

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    Geography L1 African Leader Project 13 October 2015 South Africa South Africa is located south of the equator in the southern hemisphere, its absolute location is 30 degrees South and 25 degrees East. South Africa is bordered by Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland, as well as the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Diversity is a huge feature in South Africa because it has about 11 official languages as well as many different cultures and ethnic groups. South Africa has one of the continent's largest…

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    admiration and utter awe. I was from America. Yes, this may seem completely normal, but to the thirty South African children, America represented so much more than just a country on the other side of the world. America represented hope. A type of hope that gave them the will to live and survive in the harsh conditions they were forced to inhabit in. However, never did I see a sad face in my time I spent in Africa, only laughter and happiness shone from these people. The sheer happiness they…

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    the world. Industrialization encouraged European nations to abide other countries for resources, such as Africa. They wanted more resources to fuel their industrial production. Many nations look towards Africa as resource because it had raw materials and was a great marketplace for industrial products. Slowly during the 19th and 20th centuries, many Europeans raced to gain the vast areas of Africa to obtain resources such as, gold and diamonds. As a result this brought imperialism, which seizes…

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    “Slavery in South Africa may be defined as the system in which a person was freely disposed of to another free person in a legally sanctioned sale, rite, transfer, or will, or hired out for work, without any consultation of, but not necessarily without compensation to, the enslaved person.” Travels were becoming longer due to the fact that they were busy discovering new parts of the world. The men on the boats were falling ill and they needed a refreshment station between destinations. The…

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    what is truly going on behind those doors? In the last decade in a half, a recent study showed that the African corruption cost compared to the whole globe was miraculous. Leading by $127.5 billion, Africa is single handedly destroying all other political powers in the world. I firmly believe that Africa does not have a bright future due to the fact that governments can not supply sufficient enough care to so many people that the continent holds. For the present and past history of of…

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