Race

• Africans: formed larger/ more powerful chiefdoms or kingdoms

  A major challenge African nationalists faced was to create a common African identity


  1951 census --> 8.5 million
• Whites: most dominant group were Afrikaners and those of British descent

  Tended to be wealthy and highly educated


  1951--> 60% were of Dutch, German and French descent

  They remained politically divided from those in the British Cape

  1951--> 1 million
• Coloured/ Indian

  Largely based in the Western Cape and mostly spoke Afrikaans

  Indians were 3% of the population and became English speaking


  1951--> 1.1 million, 9% of the population