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Colonial racism. The region that would become modern-day South Africa was located in a position of advantage for European merchants who were seeking to organize and carry out trade in the East Indies, primarily Portuguese and Dutch colonists. [ 1] In 1652, the Dutch East India Company founded the Cape Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. [ 1]
LGBT rights. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in South Africa have the same legal rights as non-LGBT people. [ 1][ 2] South Africa has a complex and diverse history regarding the human rights of LGBT people. The legal and social status of between 400,000 to over 2 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ...
A May 2021 Ipsos poll showed that 59% of South Africans supported same-sex marriage, 12% supported civil partnerships but not marriage, while 15% were opposed to all legal recognition for same-sex couples, and 14% were undecided. In addition, 18% of South Africans had already attended the wedding of a same-sex couple.
South Africa accounted for 15% of the world's gold production in 2002 [23] and 12% in 2005, though the nation had produced as much as 30% of the yearly world output as recently as 1993. Despite declining production, South Africa's gold exports were valued at US$3.8 billion in 2005. [ 24 ]
The Tears Foundation and the MRC stated 50% of South Africa's children will be abused before the age of 18. [20] The MRC study stated that, in 2009, 15% were under 12 years old. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In 2017, the police reported that 9% of reported rape are those of nine years old or younger with agencies reporting an increase throughout the country ...
Israel and South Africa signed a bilateral investment treaty in 2004, which included provisions for most favoured nation treatment, but it lapsed in 2014. [155] In 2015, according to the South African Reserve Bank, the stock of Israeli foreign direct investment in South Africa was worth R2.93 billion, or 0.15% of all foreign investment in South ...
The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [ 25][ 26][ 27] The economy is the most industrialised, technologically advanced, and diversified in Africa. [ 28] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South Africa ...
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