Like many other communities strongly affiliated with the West and Europe's colonial legacy in Africa, white South Africans were in the past often economically better off than their black African neighbors and have surrendered political dominance to majority rule.
像許多其他社區強烈依附於西方和歐洲在非洲的殖民遺產一樣，南非白人過去在經濟上往往比黑人更好，而且已經放棄了對多數人統治的政治支配地位。