https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu Made by natalie en-us 2017-05-03 22:55:51 UTC 2026-02-28 00:10:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hotsun.png natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169810965 They have 11 languages, community leaders which include rabbis and chieftains, rugby players and returned exiles, traditional healers ply their trade around the corner from stockbrokers, and housing ranges from mud huts to palatial homes with swimming pools.]]> 2017-05-03 23:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169810965 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169811205 South Africa was ruled by a white minority government from 1948 until 1994. They enforced a separation of races with a policy called apartheid.]]> 2017-05-03 23:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169811205 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840567 The apartheid government eventually negotiated itself out of power, and the newleadership encouraged reconciliation.]]> 2017-05-04 04:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840567 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840640 The cost of the years of conflict will be paid for a long time yet, not least in terms of lawlessness, social disruption and lost education.]]> 2017-05-04 04:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840640 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840680 South Africa faces major problems, but having held four successful national elections as well as local polls since the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say in the search for solutions.]]> 2017-05-04 04:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840680 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840762 South Africa has the continent's biggest economy, though this went into recession in May 2009 following a sharp slowdown in the mining and manufacturing sectors.]]> 2017-05-04 04:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840762 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840818 2017-05-04 04:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840818 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840876 Many South Africans remain poor and unemployment is high - a factor blamed for a wave of violent attacks against migrant workers from other African countries in 2008 and protests by township residents over poor living conditions during the summer of 2009.]]> 2017-05-04 04:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840876 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840943 2017-05-04 04:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840943 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840988 The government aims to transfer 30% of farmland to black South Africans by 2014.]]> 2017-05-04 04:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169840988 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169841010 South Africa has the second-highest number of HIV/Aids patients in the world.]]> 2017-05-04 04:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169841010 natalie_smith6 https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169841036 Free anti-retroviral drugs are available under a state-funded scheme.]]> 2017-05-04 04:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_smith6/t55ern5xz7tu/wish/169841036