Toggle menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Republic of South Africa

From ProleWiki, the proletarian encyclopedia
More languages
Revision as of 01:58, 5 June 2023 by MiladCabral (talk | contribs) (Well needed topics, in the form of sections)
Republic of South Africa
Flag of Republic of South Africa
Flag
Coat of arms of Republic of South Africa
Coat of arms
Location of Republic of South Africa
Largest cityJohannesburg
Official languagesAfrikaans
English
Ndebele
Sepedi
Sesotho
Setswana
Swazi
Tshivenda
Xhosa
Xitsonga
Zulu
Dominant mode of productionCapitalism
Area
• Total
1,221,037 km²
Population
• 2021 estimate
60,142,978


South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. Bordered by, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique.

History

Zulu Kingdom

Dutch Settle-mentation

Boer Wars

British Colonization

The British Empire defeated the Boer settlers but let them create their own state and racially segregate Africans.[1] African dockworkers first struck in 1874.[2] At the 1885 Berlin Conference, European powers divided and colonized Africa, and the British took control of what is now South Africa.[3] They fought against the Boers again from 1899 to 1902.[4] Africans rebelled again in 1906 under the leadership of Bambatha kaMancinza following a poll tax.[3] In 1910, the UK united various Boer settlements and British colonies into a single state.[4]

Apartheid South Africa

The Afrikaner Nationalist Party took power in 1948 and had direct connections to German fascism.[4]

During the apartheid era, many Black Africans were confined to puppet states called Bantustans that were nominally independent. Bantustans made up 13% of the country's area and were on poor land far from urban areas. Africans who left the Bantustans without identification documents could be arrested and deported to the nearest Bantustan.[5]

In 1960, white supremacist forces killed members of the Pan-Africanist Congress who were protesting against apartheid in the Sharpeville massacre. Dockworkers in Durban struck in 1969 and again in 1972. Inkatha, a reactionary Zulu nationalist organization, opposed the strikes.[2]

The CIA suppressed the anti-apartheid movement from the 1960s to 1980s and provided information about ANC members and activities. In 1981, they sent the South African military into Mozambique to assassinate ANC members in exile. The CIA was responsible for the arrest of Nelson Mandela and violated a UN policy by sending weapons to South Africa.[6]

In the 1980s, the United States provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to South African media to promote Western bourgeois ideals and counter Marxism.[7]

Coloureds

Bantustan

National Party (NP)

South African Communist Party (SACP)

African National Congress (ANC)

Sharpeville Massacre

uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Afrikaner Resistance Movement

Lusaka Manifesto

White Supremacist Settler Acts

Immorality Act, 1927

Group Areas Act and Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991

Honorary Whites & the Population Registration Act, 1950

Suppression of Communism Act, 1950

Native Building Workers Act, 1951

Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, 1951

Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949

Namibian War of Independence

SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization) & PLAN

Angolan Civil War

Current Racial Inequality (White Boer Supremacy) & White Flight

White settlers own over 70% of South Africa's farmland despite only being 8% of the population,[8] whereas Africans only own 4% of the farmland.[9] The average income for settlers is five times as high as for Black Africans.[5]

References

  1. Domenico Losurdo (2011). Liberalism: A Counter-History: 'The West and the Barbarians' (pp. 221–222). [PDF] Verso. ISBN 9781844676934 [LG]
  2. 2.0 2.1 "The 1973 Durban Strikes: Building Popular Democratic Power in South Africa" (2023-01-24). Tricontinental. Archived from the original on 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "South Africa and the continental struggle for socialism" (2014-01-26). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Josie Mpama (2023-03-31). "Josie Mpama" Tricontinental. Archived from the original on 2023-04-12. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Lewis Barnes (2018-05-05). "South Africa: Major developments in the long struggle for land reform" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  6. William Blum (2002). Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower: 'A Concise History of United States Global Interventions, 1945 to the Present' (pp. 122–123). [PDF] Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 9781842772201 [LG]
  7. Ajit Singh, Roscoe Palm (2022-08-08). "Manufacturing consent: How the United States has penetrated South African media" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
  8. Francis Njubi Nesbitt (2018-08-27). "In South Africa, Trump Embraces a Global Neo-Nazi Myth" MintPress News. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  9. "This Land Is the Land of Our Ancestors" (2022-06-22). Tricontinental. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-11-12.