South Africa Statistics


  • National Party won 38% of voters in 1948 election 


  • Sophiatown

    • 2000 policlemen and tanks 

    • Took 6 years to clear out - renamed ‘Triumph’


  • Bantustans

    • 13% of land reserved for Africans, 70% of population 

    • 70% economically active population was forced into migrant labour

    • 1960-82 – 3.5 million forcibly removes

    • 8 bantustans, later 10 


  • Bantu Education

    • Pre-apartheid: 

      • 1954- 24% Africans recorded as literal 

      • 90% of Africans attended mission schools

      • Overcrowding in classroom compared to white - 48:20 

      • Over 4000 mission schools, 230 gov schools 

    • Gov schools → over 7000

    • Mission schools reduced to less than 500 

    • 85% of teachers in Black schools had zero qualification

 

  • White Opposition to apartheid

    • 23 involved in Treason Trial (out of 156 total) 

    • Helen Suzman - only anti-apartheid parliamentary voice for 13 years 

    • Ruth First arrested for 117 days in 1963


  • Treason Trial 1956 

    • 156 figures arrested 18 months after Freedom Charter

    • Including all of ANC leadership 


  • Sharpeville Massacre 1960 

    • 500-20,000 peaceful protestors

    • 1300 rounds of bullets shot by police 

    • 70% of people killed were shot in the back from running away 

    • 69 killed 


  • Rivonia Trial 1964

    • Raid - found MK operatives + over 250 documents 

    • Mandela’s 4-hour speech 


  • Trade Unions + Protests

    • 1973 Durban Strikes - 60,000 workers involved 

    • COSATU formed in 1985 - largest TU federation - allies with ANC



  • Soweto Uprising 1976 

    • Over 600 dead over 1000 injured - Hector Peterson, 13-year-old shot by the police and died 


  • 1994 election - 86% voters turnout and ANC win 63% of the vote


  • Electoral Stats - Post 1994 

    • DA

      • 2009 - won Western Cape province 

      • 2014 - 22% 

    • EEF

      • 2014 - 6.4%


  • AIDs/HIV -- under Mbeki 

    • 35,000 babies born with HIV due to ARV policy restrictions 

    • By 2005 - ARV coverage in SA was 23% vs 85% in Botswana 


  • Mandela’s Legacy 

    • 1994 - first inclusive democratic vote - Mandela elected president 

    • Robben Island - imprisoned for 27 years 

    • Mandela Day - July 18th 

    • 2013 Death - over 90 world leaders attended memorial; global mourning 

    • 70th birthday concert - viewed by 600 million people in 67 countries