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| | South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | After four years of negotiations, the Union of South Africa was created from the colonies of Cape Colony, Natal Colony, and the republics of Orange Free State, and Transvaal on May 31, 1910, exactly eight years after the end of the Second Boer War. |
| | After World War II, by the National Party's election in 1948, the White minority were able to maintain their grip on power by implementing the policies that would become known collectively as apartheid, a series of harsh, and often elaborately racist laws segregating the country along racial lines. |
| | Consecutive growth rates in the last ten years are helping lower unemployment, however, the economy still has ways to go, and daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially the problems of poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups. |
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