South Africa

Question 1

What is the black population of South Africa?

Answer 1

39.7m (80%)

Question 2

What is the “coloured” population of South Africa?

Answer 2

4.4m (9%)

Question 3

What is the white population of South Africa?

Answer 3

4.6m (9%)

Question 4

What is the Asian population of South Africa?

Answer 4

1.3m (3%)

Question 5

What was the system that goverened South Africa between 1948 - 1990 called?

Answer 5

Apartheid.

Question 6

Is crime a big problem, and if so, how?

Answer 6

Yes, South Africa has more car-jackings, rapes, and murders than nearly any other country in the world.

Question 7

How many murders on average are there a day, and who are mostly the victims?

Answer 7

59 murders a day, and almost all are poor blacks.

Question 8

Why was the Oscar Pistorias trial so controversial?

Answer 8

It was controversial it is was seen by some as extremely biased sentencing towards Oscar, as he was a rich, influencial, white man.

Question 9

What is the murder rate in South Africa compared to Scotland’s?

Answer 9

1 in 3,300 people murdered in a year, compared to Scotlands 1.8 per capita (per 100,00) a year.

Question 10

Is crime more likely to affect black communities?

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

How does infant mortality affect blacks and whites?

Answer 11

Infant mortality is far more common in black communities, with 65 per 1000 births for blacks, and 8 per 1000 for white people.

Question 12

What is the HIV rates of blacks and whiets in South Africa?

Answer 12

13% of black South Africans are infected with HIV, while only 0.3% of whites are infected.

Question 13

How many people in total are infected with HIV, and who does it mainly affect?

Answer 13

Almost 1/5 South Africans are infected with HIV, with 1/3 people aged 15-49 people are believed to be infected.

Question 14

What action has SA government taken to tackle health inequalities?

Answer 14

The SA government has introduced the National Health Insurance programme, which has aimed to provide health insurance to all who South Africans/

Question 15

Why do whites seemingly have better health?

Answer 15

Whites on average have more money, and therefore access to greater healthcare.

Question 16

How does HIV affect SA?

Answer 16

Massive negative on the health of the country, thousands dying of illness, which also has an effect on the economy as the work force is dying.

Question 17

What is the average life expectancy in South Africa, and the life expectancy for whites and blacks?

Answer 17

Overall - 62 years
Blacks - below 50 years
Whites - upwards of 80 years

Question 18

What percentage of those in poverty are black, despite ANC attempts to close the gap?

Answer 18

90% are black.

Question 19

How many of South Africa live on less than $2 a day?

Answer 19

Nearly half of South Africans.

Question 20

What is the unemployement rate of South Africa?

Answer 20

26.7%.

Question 21

How many South Africans run out of money every? month?

Answer 21

1/5 South Africans run out of money every month.

Question 22

How many school leavers leave without qualifications?

Answer 22

70%

Question 23

What is the percentage of schools deemed dysfunctional by SA government?

Answer 23

80% of schools were deemed dysfunctional.

Question 24

Where does South Africa rank on primary education, and Science & Maths according to the World Economic Forum?

Answer 24

132/144 countries for Primary Education.

143/144 countries for Science & Maths.

Question 25

How many whites pass highschool exams, compared to blacks?

Answer 25

96% of whites pass, whereas only 36% of blacks pass theirs.

Question 26

What does poor education lead to?

Answer 26

Poorer results/qualifications, therefore less people going into employment, which makes it very difficult to deal with poverty (also bad for economy).

Question 27

What is “Black Economic Empowerment” (BEE)?

Answer 27

It is basically an affirmative action plan, which provides goals for private companies to hire more blacks , and gives an incentive to government to do business with black owned businesses. Black south africans must now constitute 60% of senior managers by 2017.

Question 28

Why is BEE controversial?

Answer 28

Many jobs have been hiring friends of the ANC, rather than average South Africans?

Question 29

What party has had many occurances of corruption, and how?

Answer 29

The ANC under Jacob Zuma, due to ‘NKlandla’, his home that used taxpayer money for his own cinema, and swimming pool etc.

Question 30

What is the South African Constitution describe as?

Answer 30

One of the most liberal constitutions in the world.

Question 31

What type of state is South Africa?

Answer 31

A federal state, consisting of a national government, and nine provincial governments.

Question 32

What is the National Assembly?

Answer 32

The Lower House, consists of 400 directly elected representatives, who are elected every 5 years using a party-list system.

Question 33

What is the National Council of Provinces?

Answer 33

The Upper House, is elected by provincial legislatures

Question 34

Describe former president Zuma.

Answer 34

Zuma was a charasmatic and personable president, who was popular with the poor, untrusted by the white middle class, and has overcome a great deal of personal problems.

Question 35

Describe the new President Ramaphosa.

Answer 35

He is more stable, more conservative character. He has vowed to rid the ANC (African National Congress) of corruption, along with South Africa.

Question 36

Describe the ANC’s influence in party politics.

Answer 36

They are extremely popular, less so now though, they retain the loyalty of black South Africans. This is due to the party’s influence with the overthrow of apartheid.

Question 37

Why is the Democratic Alliance (DA) on the rise?

Answer 37

They are becoming a serious force because many black voters who used to vote instinctively for ANC are moving to DA. DA has even made huge gains in ANC strongholds such as Pretoria in 2018.

Question 38

What is the unemployment rates between whites and blacks, compared also to the national average?

Answer 38

Blacks - 30% (Above national average)
Whites - 10% (Below national average)
National - 26.7%

Question 39

Which healthcare model is South Africa’s based off of?

Answer 39

The Brazillian primary healthcare model.

Question 40

Explain how the National Health Insurrance programme (NHI) works.

Answer 40

School health programmes will be strengthened, and specialist teams (including gynecologists, paediatricians and advanced mid-wives) are assigned to each of SA’s 52 Health Districts.

Question 41

What problems has the NHI run into?

Answer 41

The poor/unemployed (predominently black) must go to state run healthcare will poor facilities, long waiting lists and often, a shortage of doctors.