Ethnic groups in South Africa

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Ethnic groups in South Africa have a variety of origins. Racial categories were introduced by the post-colonial apartheid regime by legally classifying them according to racial categories . Today, the governing party of South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to classify the population as belonging to one of the four colonial-era constructed racial groups: Whites , Indians , Coloureds / Khoi-San and Bantu Black Africans. The ANC government claims that using these categories is essential in order to identify and track the progress of Historically Disadvantaged Individuals (HDI) which are people who, before democratisation and the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993 (Act No. 200 of 1993), came into operation, were disadvantaged by unfair discrimination on the basis of race under the former colonial apartheid regime. The National Census of 1996 was the 1st comprehensive national census by the ANC government, after the democratic transition. Statistics South...

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