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80% of South Africa's people own only 4% of the land. These are Black South Africans. In contrast, 75% of the land is privately owned by white South Africans, who comprise about 7% of the population. But apartheid ended in 1994. So why hasn't land been more equitably distributed since then?
In this interview, we discuss the following:
►How colonial era Christianity ended the fluidity of societal and power relations among Blacks in South Africa.
►How colonial-imposed land boundaries changed South Africa's culture and allegiances.
►Do white South Africans experience higher crime than Black South Africans?
►How English South Africans supported Afrikaners - their former enemies - and lifted them up in society so that together they could maintain white supremacy.
►Why do Indians of South Africa call themselves Black?
►What happened after the end of apartheid to South Africa's economy and race relations?
►Why did some historians claim that South Africa's decade of 1970s was lost to history?
►Why did it take so long for apartheid to end?
►How did corruption become so pervasive in South Africa?
►Is South Africa a failed state?
Read History Behind News blog post on South Africa.
🚩About My 175th Guest:
Dr. Daniel Magaziner is a professor at Yale University and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of History at Yale. He is a historian of 20th century Africa, and the author of several books, including the following:
The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968 – 1977
The Art of Life in South Africa, and
Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle to Change South Africa.
🚩Recommendations:
🎧S1E28: history of Ethiopia, Dr. Etana Dinka
🎧S3E28: history of Sudan, Dr. Christopher Tounsel
🚩Adel Aali
host & producer
☑️Where to find my program:
Home:https://historybehindnews.com
Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify
Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple
YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub
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🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Flag of South Africa in podcast thumbnail is by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay.
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80% of South Africa's people own only 4% of the land. These are Black South Africans. In contrast, 75% of the land is privately owned by white South Africans, who comprise about 7% of the population. But apartheid ended in 1994. So why hasn't land been more equitably distributed since then?
In this interview, we discuss the following:
►How colonial era Christianity ended the fluidity of societal and power relations among Blacks in South Africa.
►How colonial-imposed land boundaries changed South Africa's culture and allegiances.
►Do white South Africans experience higher crime than Black South Africans?
►How English South Africans supported Afrikaners - their former enemies - and lifted them up in society so that together they could maintain white supremacy.
►Why do Indians of South Africa call themselves Black?
►What happened after the end of apartheid to South Africa's economy and race relations?
►Why did some historians claim that South Africa's decade of 1970s was lost to history?
►Why did it take so long for apartheid to end?
►How did corruption become so pervasive in South Africa?
►Is South Africa a failed state?
Read History Behind News blog post on South Africa.
🚩About My 175th Guest:
Dr. Daniel Magaziner is a professor at Yale University and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of History at Yale. He is a historian of 20th century Africa, and the author of several books, including the following:
The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968 – 1977
The Art of Life in South Africa, and
Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle to Change South Africa.
🚩Recommendations:
🎧S1E28: history of Ethiopia, Dr. Etana Dinka
🎧S3E28: history of Sudan, Dr. Christopher Tounsel
🚩Adel Aali
host & producer
☑️Where to find my program:
Home:https://historybehindnews.com
Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify
Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple
YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub
Adel on Facebook and X.com
Support:
Click here and join our other supporters in thenews peeler community. Thank you.
🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Flag of South Africa in podcast thumbnail is by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay.
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