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The short answer: South Africa was the last African country to decolonize and its white population had longer ties to the land. The long answer: Settler colonial states in Africa all had violent transitions of power or at least violence spurring on the transition of power.
South Africa's white population is descended from a diverse array of white European ancestors and although the Dutch-dominated Afrikaner ethnic group is by far the largest and constitutes a majority of the population, something like two in five white South Africans today have English as their first language, and one of the supposed long term ...
At present, Namibia contains the largest white minority in Africa outside of South Africa itself. Whites account for roughly 7% of the population, and certain locales - e.g. Windhoek - have majority white populations.
The majority of English-speaking White South Africans trace their ancestry to the 1820 British and Dutch colonists. The remainder of the White South African population consists of later immigrants from Lebanon, and Europe such as Greeks and Norwegians.
1 maj 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 family...
20 maj 2021 · By comparing the Afrikaners in our study to 1,670 individuals from 32 populations across the world we found that 4.7% of Afrikaner DNA has a non-European origin.
19 lip 2022 · Unlike in other postcolonial African countries, white South Africans—about 15 percent of the population—were suddenly governed by the people whom they and their forebears had oppressed.
