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CultureShock! South Africa. A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    In 1904, when the country needed additional labour for post-war reconstruction, many thousands of Chinese labourers were recruited for this and also to work on the gold mines.
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    150,000 Indians
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    Today the majority of the million-strong Indian population still lives in Durban and other areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    In the mid-19th century, the European sugar cane planters needed labour skilled in this area of agriculture, so they recruited workers from the Indian subcontinent
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    Not all the Indian immigrants were labourers. Some of higher caste came on their own as traders and merchants.
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1894
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    In 1893, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of a train in South Africa because he refused to move out of a ‘whites-only’ compartment. He had come to South Africa to defend a court case but ended up spending 20 years in the country, being a key figure in the Indian protest movement.
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    July 1985, the then State President P W Botha declared a state of emergency, saying the country was ungovernable
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    18.8 per cent of the population between the ages of 15 and 49 years old is infecte
  • Александра Томашевскаяhas quoted8 years ago
    The collapse of the dictatorship in Portugal to the left-wing in 1974, led to her pulling out of Africa with major implications for her colonies, especially Mozambique and Angola.
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