Black South African

E267831

Black South Africans are the majority population group in South Africa, encompassing diverse indigenous ethnic communities with distinct languages, cultures, and histories shaped by colonialism and apartheid.

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Label Occurrences
Black South Africans 2
Black South African canonical 1

Statements (55)

Predicate Object
instanceOf demographic group
ethnic group
associatedWith African National Congress
Black Consciousness Movement
Pan Africanist Congress
citizenshipContext South African citizen or resident
continent Africa
country South Africa
culturalCharacteristic communal social structures such as ubuntu
diverse indigenous customs and traditions
rich oral traditions
facesIssue economic inequality in South Africa
educational inequality in South Africa
land reform debates in South Africa
hasCollectiveMemoryOf land dispossession
resistance to apartheid
hasEthnicSubgroup Khoisan-descendant communities
Ndebele people
surface form: Ndebele

Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
surface form: Northern Sotho

Sotho-Tswana peoples
surface form: Sotho

Sotho
surface form: Southern Sotho

Swazi
Tsonga
Setswana
surface form: Tswana

Venda
Xhosa
Zulu
hasLanguage Afrikaans
English
Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
surface form: Sepedi

Sesotho
Setswana
Tshivenda
Xitsonga
isiNdebele
isiXhosa
Zulu
surface form: isiZulu

siSwati
hasLanguageFamily Bantu languages
historicalExperience apartheid
colonialism
legalClassificationUnderApartheid Black
majorityIn South Africa
playsMajorRoleIn South African culture
South African economy
South African politics
politicalRightsExpandedIn 1994 democratic transition of South Africa
populationProportionInSouthAfrica majority
postApartheidClassification Black African
religion African traditional religion
surface form: African traditional religions

Christianity
Islam
subjectTo forced removals under apartheid
pass laws in South Africa
racial segregation laws in South Africa

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South African ethnicGroup Black South African
Separate Amenities Act discriminatedAgainst Black South African
this entity surface form: Black South Africans
apartheid government of South Africa disenfranchised Black South African
this entity surface form: Black South Africans