Even the 2 countries that are basically INSIDE of South Africa – Lesotho and Swaziland – are uncivilized.
South Africa also has equal rights for LGBT, which is a huge step, while the rest of Africa basically bans homosexuality and many countries use the death penalty against homosexuals.
How did South Africa seemingly rapidly industrialize compared to the rest of Africa?
There's not even any "civilized" countries ANYWHERE around them.
Well cape town was the first colony the British had in Africa, and it worked hard to keep it and develop it as it was a key port town. So Britain poured a lot of effort into stabilising it and industrialising it, and formed a country that could look after itself, so when it declared independence it could stand on it's own two feet, whereas other African colony's asked for independence when they had only just started with government, and therfore encountered corruption amongst other problems.
Since the 1950's, South Africa has been able to capatalise on it's huge diamond mine resources to provide huge industrialisation.
Lesotho and Swaziland are basically the lands granted to tribes of South Africa, but are civilised; they have good morals, were opposed to apartheid, and have strong foriegn relations.
South Africa only got equal rights after apartheid, the seperation of Whites and Blacks for a very long time, till Mandela sorted it out, and since then they've been all for eqality so not to cause another form of apartheid.
Surrounding countries are civilised and were stable, but their governments scewed them over, for example Mugabe destroyed the farming sector in Zimbabwe, driving them to ruin. 10 years ago they were doing fine.
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South Africa is not a first world country , compared to most African countries South Africa is norway but it's very poor in comparison to Europe.
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Well cape town was the first colony the British had in Africa, and it worked hard to keep it and develop it as it was a key port town. So Britain poured a lot of effort into stabilising it and industrialising it, and formed a country that could look after itself, so when it declared independence it could stand on it's own two feet, whereas other African colony's asked for independence when they had only just started with government, and therfore encountered corruption amongst other problems.
Since the 1950's, South Africa has been able to capatalise on it's huge diamond mine resources to provide huge industrialisation.
Lesotho and Swaziland are basically the lands granted to tribes of South Africa, but are civilised; they have good morals, were opposed to apartheid, and have strong foriegn relations.
South Africa only got equal rights after apartheid, the seperation of Whites and Blacks for a very long time, till Mandela sorted it out, and since then they've been all for eqality so not to cause another form of apartheid.
Surrounding countries are civilised and were stable, but their governments scewed them over, for example Mugabe destroyed the farming sector in Zimbabwe, driving them to ruin. 10 years ago they were doing fine.
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Uhm, here comes another ignorant person asking stupid question.
What do you call civilized?
You westerners are stupidly ignorant!
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As someone down there said, who are you to determine what is civilised??? That is ignorant, ethnocenteric thinking. There are many things about European and New World culture and history that are very violent, ignorant and barbaric. Let's see: the Crusades, Imperialism, Slavery!!!, the Holocaust.
And Lesotho and Swaziland are beautiful countries with a similar infrastructure. Do you mean they have more tribal government? Is that uncivilised to you? Because it does not remind you of home???
South Africa did not rapidly industrialize. It grew as any nation did during the age of industrialization. The rest of Africa has similar nations that were economically thriving at one point too. Ghana is still doing very well for it's self.
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South Africa is not a first world country
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