{"id":6870,"date":"2012-01-09T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/factbox-south-africa-since-apartheid\/"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:30:43","slug":"factbox-south-africa-since-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-south-africa-since-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-South Africa since apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has seen huge social<br \/>\nchange under 18 years of rule by the African National Congress<br \/>\n(ANC), which is celebrating its centenary.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In many areas of people&#8217;s lives, though, the legacy of<br \/>\ndecades of white-minority government is still painfully evident<br \/>\nin the self-styled &#8220;Rainbow nation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following are some comparisons between the present day and<br \/>\nthe situation before the ANC won the first all-race elections in<br \/>\n1994:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HOUSING<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Under apartheid, segregation was mandated by law. Barred<br \/>\nfrom &#8220;white&#8221; areas, blacks had to live in townships or<br \/>\nimpoverished rural areas know as Bantustans.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The apartheid government built few houses for blacks. When<br \/>\nNelson Mandela&#8217;s ANC came to power, there was one formal brick<br \/>\nhouse for every 43 blacks compared with one for every 3.5<br \/>\nwhites.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A 1996 census showed that 3.1 million urban and rural<br \/>\nfamilies lived in &#8220;informal&#8221; houses &#8211; the government euphemism<br \/>\nfor shanty-towns or squatter camps.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From 1994 to 2010 the housing backlog has grown from 1.5<br \/>\nmillion families to more than 2.1 million, according to the<br \/>\nHousing Department. This means 12 million South Africans, or one<br \/>\nin four of the population, are still without a proper roof over<br \/>\ntheir heads.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has seen huge social change under 18 years of rule by the African National Congress (ANC), which is celebrating its centenary. In many areas of people&#8217;s lives, though, the legacy of decades of white-minority government is still painfully evident in the self-styled &#8220;Rainbow nation&#8221;. Following are some comparisons between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}