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The first Chinese to settle in South Africa were prisoners, usually debtors, exiled from Batavia by the Dutch to their then newly founded colony at Cape Town in 1660. . Originally the Dutch wanted to recruit Chinese settlers to settle in the colony as farmers, thereby helping establish the colony and create a tax base so the colony would be less of a drain on Dut
Chinese-South African culture (6 P) S. South African people of Chinese descent (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Chinese diaspora in South Africa"
This population is dispersed across South Africa with 34 under the age of 15, 21,6% from 15 to 24, 28,3% from 25 to 44, 11.8% from 45 to 64 and 4,3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age of a 'Black' South African is 21 years. For every 100 females there are 91,1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86,2 males. [14]
Pages in category "South African people of Chinese descent" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Black Chinese people (1 C, 2 P) * Hong Kong people of African descent (8 C, 1 P) Macau people of African descent (4 C) A. ... Chinese people of South African descent ...
During the Apartheid regime (1948–93) Chinese South Africans were classified as "Coloureds" or "Asian South Africans", while certain East Asian nationals (such as Japan and Taiwan) in South Africa were declared honorary whites and thus avoided most forms of official discriminatory laws (they could live in reserved white neighborhoods unlike ...
In South Africa, Asian usually refers to people of South Asian ancestry, more commonly called Indians. [1] [2] They are largely descended from people who migrated to South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th century from British ruled South Asia. The "Indian"/"Asian" identity was codified by law under Apartheid as a race group. [3]
Angola has 500,000 people of mixed race or black and white. [93] South Africa has 5,176,000 coloureds, Namibia 143,000 and Zimbabwe 17,000. Tens of millions of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa are Eurasians, mixed race or have at least one Eurasian ancestor.