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In nine pages this paper presents an overview of the Republic of South Africa and considers the enduring impact of British imperialism in a discussion of its history and continuing problems of high mortality due to the AIDS pandemic, its mistrust of the West that has influenced its foreign policy, high crime rate due in large part to the drug trade, and unequal distribution of economic resources. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
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monarch with the Chief, luxury with want, philanthropy with lawless rapine: let us set before us in one view, the lofty cathedral and the straw-hut, the flowery garden and the
stony waste, the verdant meadow and the and sands. And when our imagination shall have completed the picture, and placed it in a light which may invite contemplation, it
will, I think, be impossible not to derive from it instruction of the highest class."1 This encapsulates the root of the problems that have historically plagued South Africa.
It is a land of diversity and contradictions - wealth and poverty, democracy and oppression, black and white. The geographical and cultural contrasts are equally striking, with South Africa
being comprised of nine provinces (Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, North-West, Northern Cape, Limpopo, and Western Cape) and an astounding eleven official languages including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi,
Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu.2 Despite an estimated population of nearly 48 million, approximately 80 percent of whom are black, South Africa has until recent years
been ruled by a white minority faction - first by the British imperialists and later by a regional National Party - that promoted racism and the politics of apartheid or
separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, war, and inequality. It is impossible to imagine how South Africa would have dealt with
its contrasts and complexities on its own because it has received unwanted intervention in the form of British imperialism since the seventeenth century. First with the white Christian missionaries,
intent on civilizing the primitive black tribes, and later with the traders and miners who sought to exploit the countrys resources and native peoples for their own economic gain, imperialism
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