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Racism in South Africa can be traced back to the earliest historical accounts of interactions between African, Asian, and European peoples along the coast of Southern Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has existed throughout several centuries of the history of South Africa , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] dating back to the Dutch colonization of Southern Africa , which ...
Communal conflicts in Nigeria [3] can be divided into two broad categories: [4] [dubious – discuss]. Ethno-religious conflicts, attributed to actors primarily divided by cultural, ethnic, or religious communities and identities, such as instances of religious violence between Christian and Muslim communities.
Human rights are "rights one has simply because one is a human being." [3] These privileges and civil liberties are innate in every person without prejudice and where ethnicity, place of abode, gender, cultural origin, skin color, religious affiliation, or language including sexual orientation do not matter.
"A Tale of Two Townships: Political Opportunity, Violent and Non-Violent Local Control in South Africa", Alex Park's paper exploring causal factors of the 2008 violence "Broke-on-Broke Violence": What the U.S. press got wrong about South Africa's xenophobic riots , By Kerry Chance, Slate Magazine , 20 June 2008
A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2023. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 44 per 100,000 in 2023 after a brief drop in 2020.
Namibia is located in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that has some of the highest crime rates in the world. Contributing factors are for instance poverty, a low level of development, and huge social and economic disadvantages. [1] For example, according to government statistics, the unemployment rate reached 28.1% in 2014; in 2008, it was 51.2%. [2]
Gender-based violence is a profound and widespread problem in South Africa, impacting almost every aspect of life. Gender-based violence, which disproportionately affects women and girls, is systemic and deeply entrenched in institutions, cultures, and traditions in South Africa. South Africa is considered to be the rape capital of the world.
Some one thousand people were killed in riots in 2001, and at least 700 died in subsequent violence in 2008. [5] Jos is the capital of Plateau State, in the middle of the divide between the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria and the predominantly Christian south. [6] Since 2001, the area has been plagued by violence motivated by multiple ...