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White Africans of European ancestry refers to citizens or residents in Africa who can trace full or partial ancestry to Europe. They are distinguished from indigenous North African people who are sometimes identified as white but not European. In 1989, there were an estimated 4.6 million white people with European ancestry on the ...
White South Africans are by far the largest population of White Africans. White was a legally defined racial classification during apartheid. Most Afrikaners trace their ancestry back to colonists in the mid-17th century and have developed a separate cultural identity, including a distinct language.
White Zimbabweans; Regions with significant populations Zimbabwe Estimate: 55,000 (2023) South Africa: 64,261 (2002) Australia ~12,000 (2006) New Zealand ~10,000 (2016) Languages; English (majority), Afrikaans, Greek, Portuguese, others (minority) Religion; Predominantly Christianity, Judaism: Related ethnic groups
19 lug 2022 · Ideas. When Racial Progress Comes for White Liberals. Many Afrikaners welcomed the end of apartheid, but 30 years on, they’ve found Black-majority rule in South Africa hard to live with. By...
- Whiteness in South Africa
- Reluctant Democrats But Without Apartheid Nostalgia
- Needed: A ‘Politics of Responsibility’
The book is based on data collected through eight in-depth qualitative focus group interviews, conducted in the provinces of KwaZulu Natal, Western Cape, Gauteng and Free State. Southall anchors the study with a historical contextualisation, giving the long view over time of specifically the political development of whiteness. He provides an analys...
One of Southall’s important findings is that limited nostalgia for apartheid exists among his respondents. Not a single respondent expressed the wish that the apartheid dispensation should have continued. He shows in this book that white South Africans might be “reluctant democrats”, but they have accepted democracy (p. 239). This might seem like a...
The study finds that white people are willing to admit to the “wrongness” of apartheid, even as they deflect responsibility to apartheid-era securocratic and political elites. They had “a sense of relief” when the country finally transitioned to democracy in the 1990s. However, respondents in the study do not support redress to correct the effects ...
- Christi Van Der Westhuizen
3 mag 2014 · Why white South Africans are coming home - BBC News. 3 May 2014. Getty Images. Many have felt the tug of South Africa and returned home. Hundreds of thousands of whites left South Africa...
1 mag 2019 · May 1, 2019. As a white South African, Sydelle Willow Smith grew up keenly aware of her country’s tangled history of colonialism, race and privilege. Though she was raised in a liberal Jewish...
