Violence in South Africa

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While South Africa is one of the richest countries of Africa, why is there so much violence? 25 of the biggest African firms are South African, and its economy is the largest and the most developed on the continent. It grows by 5% every year. Yet, South Africa has a high rate of unemployment and of poverty too. More over, and that is the point, it has the highest crime and rape rate on the continent, and almost the highest in the world. South Africa has a large population of Black, White and Colored people - as they are called - like Asian or Indian people. That is why it is called “the rainbow nation”, an expression that you will find in every document about South Africa. It is a country where multicultural diversity is developing. Black people are the majority. Yet, they are not the more powerful as we could think. More than 75% of the South African population belongs to Christian churches. The other major religious groups are the Hindus, Muslims and Jews. In South Africa, violence is quite rampant (rape, discrimination, crime…).

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[...] Then I decided to deal with the following subject: violence in South Africa. I found articles on the Internet, Mrs XXX gave me some documents from newspapers or magazines and I borrowed some information from dictionaries and encyclopaedias. In fact, about this subject, there is really a lot of information, a lot of things to say, to explain and to describe. I tried to do my best but every times I looked for picture or a graphic, I found new information: South Africa is hyped and has much media coverage. [...]

[...] Most of the time, like for murder and assault, women know their offender in some way. That is what the following graphic shows us: A testimony that I found in an article written by Reesha Chibba you are HIV-positive, nothing can stop document in the annex) shows us the same thing as this graphic: "I've been raped and I didn't tell anyone about my rape until this year. It was somebody I knew.” Being raped is a shock and the women that have been raped can not live normally, like other people that have not been raped it could cause problems like fear, distrust and so on. [...]

[...] But the problem is that the white farmer has become a target; he can be attacked, tortured or killed by black people who think that the situation is unfair, because the South African government promised them a part of the white grounds years after the end of apartheid, only of these grounds are in black people's hands, instead of the 30% promised by the government. Since 1994, more than 9,000 attacks have taken place against white farmers farmers have been killed among the 43,000 white farmers. Black aggressors even use some language that enables them to program an attack many weeks before it. White farmers are really scared, and this is the goal! Some of them follow some self defence training courses and buy weapons. But most of them have left the country. [...]

[...] Example of a pass book From that moment, black people left their ancient homes, and would like to live in the countryside. The problem was that there were no place and no jobs for them. That is why they were forced to build townships, or to live in those which were already built. Sometimes, they settled in areas that own to white people, thing that caused problems. Black people and townships They were living in the place they found. They lived together, in separate areas, away from white people. [...]

[...] Looking at the following graphic may help us to understand what happened, what happens and what will happen in South Africa about battered wives. If 55% of the children between 10 to 14 years find it acceptable for a man to hit a woman, even if this figure decreases when they become older, this way of thinking won't help those children to respect women, or to be respected in the future (in this graphic, both males and females have been questioned). [...]