Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering skills for the toefl ibt part 2', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Mastering-Books_5 2 12 PM Page 703 were classified legally as black white Indian and colored. Don t confuse the term colored with the old derogatory term for black people in the United States. In South Africa it meant people of mixed race. The term is still used today but since many don t like it and since it has a different historical meaning in the US I will use the term mixed race to avoid confusion. OK Now as I was saying the demographics break down like this 75 are black are white are mixed race and then are Indian. Now like I said the people of mixed race and of Indian descent supported the effort to bring down apartheid and I should add that a few of the white people did as well. So after a long and difficult struggle apartheid was dismantled by . De Klerk in 1990. Yes do you have a question W2 Does everyone speak English in South Africa M No not necessarily. Most people do I think but there are actually eleven official languages. English is one and I m sure you ve all heard of Afrikaans That s the language of the Dutch settlers. It sort of evolved into a new language over the centuries of Dutch settlement. The most commonly spoken language that s native to the area I believe would be Zulu. Then there are others but I won t get into them right now. They should be in your book. Anyway back to the different ethnic groups for a moment. You should be aware that South Africa has the largest population of people of European descent in Africa and the largest Indian population outside of Asia. Not only that it also has the largest mixed race community in Africa. Now as I was saying earlier South Africa has the largest economy of all the countries on the African continent. It has a labor force of more than 13 million people. If we look at a breakdown of those 13-million-or-so workers we can see that 35 of workers are employed in services 30 work in agriculture 20 in industry and 9 work in mining. The remaining 6 are employed in other fields.
