the southern hemisphere it is big five times the size of its former colonizer the united kingdom and is home to NUMBER_TOKEN million people that is about the same as the european country italy or china's NUMBER_TOKENth most populous province anhui the country is extremely multi-ethnic NUMBER_TOKEN percent of the population is black african but there also are sizable minority populations of whites asians and colored the reasons for this multi-ethnicity is colonialism and slavery white europeans first came to what is now south africa and mass in the early NUMBER_TOKENth century white colonists mostly dutch but including others carved out homes in the rough soil they fought rough conflicts with the black tribes living there pushing them out in the NUMBER_TOKENs and NUMBER_TOKENs gold and diamonds were discovered in the inner plains and that brought about an economic boom and so another series of wars at this point in time slaves and indentured workers were imported by companies seeking to exploit their labor to mine for precious minerals keep in mind this part the british expanded out of their colony in cape town conquering the various warring tribes white and black to create the union of south africa the union was originally set up to be a federation like canada and australia but soon left the commonwealth and became an independent republic then after the national party ascended to power and formalized a series of racial segregation policies called apartheid that lasted until the early NUMBER_TOKENs when various social movements inside and outside of the country caused the government to disassemble apartheid the african national congress and anti-apartheid political movement has been in power ever since with varying degrees of popularity lord i left so much out i apologize to all those marginalized the chinese story in south africa is not dissimilar to that which took place in australia canada and the united states and that makes sense considering the shared colonial history of these nations chinese men have been traveling abroad to find work for a very long time they were valued by colonial leaders for their hard-working attitude and diligence when cape town was first founded in NUMBER_TOKEN by members of the united east india company the dutch requested NUMBER_TOKEN chinese laborers to be brought to their new colony jan von ribeck expedition leader and colonial administrator had worked with chinese laborers in the dutch colony of java now in indonesia and held good views of their diligence he called them efficient industrious gardeners and thought they would help cultivate the rich land there this request was not granted this is the first instance you will see to be of a frequent trend on one hand you have colonials generally business owners or administrators who see chinese laborers as good workers and want more imported so to benefit from their labor and then you have another group of colonists who resent the competition for the same jobs and labor see the chinese as perpetual foreigners and want them banned from their lands the first such chinese immigrants were sent in NUMBER_TOKEN from the dutch colony of batavia what is now jakarta as part of a shipment that included malays indonesians and indians they were generally the worst of the lot criminals thieves and a few political exiles they came to serve their punishment and many returned to china after said sentence was completed a few chinese
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