{"id":83319,"date":"2015-03-24T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=83319"},"modified":"2015-03-25T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T06:10:27","slug":"mapping-the-racial-divide-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/83319\/mapping-the-racial-divide-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the racial divide in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s population distribution across the country&#8217;s three major cities shows that very little has happened in the way of\u00a0breaking through the &#8220;spacial legacy&#8221; of apartheid and becoming a more integrated society.<\/p>\n<p>This is illustrated more clearly by looking at dot-map comparisons of the racial distribution of South Africa, which are available online.<\/p>\n<p>The maps were produced by Capetonian software developer\u00a0and cartographer, Adrian Frith, using data from census 2011 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Frith has also produced an <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/dotmap.adrianfrith.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/dotmap.adrianfrith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">interactive dot map of South Africa&#8217;s racial spread<\/a><\/strong> using small-area census data from 2011, with each dot representing 50 people.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Map key:<\/strong> Black Africans (Blue), Whites (Purple), Coloured (Orange), Indian\/Asian (Green)<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 305%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; height: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/slider\/racial_distribution.html\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Johannesburg<\/h3>\n<p>In 2001, Gauteng had 9.4 million people living in the province, of which 7 million (75%) were black, 1.8 million (19%) white, 339,969\u00a0(3.6%) coloured and 218,130\u00a0(2.3%) Indian.<\/p>\n<p>The greater Johannesburg area (including the City of Joburg and Ekhuruleni municipalities) accounted for 3.2 million of the population.<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a02011, the province&#8217;s population had increased to 12.3 million with a similar racial spread, with the greater Johannesburg area swelling to account for\u00a07.6 million, much in part to the Ekhuruleni metro swallowing up smaller wards.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, a high proportion of the population in the city is condensed into relatively small areas, with the\u00a0more &#8220;affluent&#8221; areas are still dominated by white people, showing relatively little integration.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to census data from 2001, it&#8217;s clear that in the city, like South Africa&#8217;s other main hubs, very little has changed over the years,\u00a0exhibiting\u00a0the oft-referenced &#8220;spacial legacy&#8221; of apartheid.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Cape Town<\/h3>\n<p>In 2001, the Western Cape had a population of\u00a04.5 million people, with a coloured majority (54%). In 2011, the population grew to\u00a05.8 million people, with the coloured population remaining dominant (48.8%).<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the City of Cape Town metro, the city accounted for 2.9 million people in 2001, jumping to\u00a03.7 million in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Over the period of a decade, the white minority (2001: 18.8%, 2011: 15.7%) remained entrenched in the more affluent areas, with the maps again showing minimal integration.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Durban<\/h3>\n<p>Like it&#8217;s big-brother cities, Durban has shown little in the way of spatial transformation over the past decade or so, though integration is far more apparent than Cape Town or Joburg.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, KwaZulu Natal province had a total population of , which jumped to 10.3 million in 2011. The province holds a large black population (almost 86%) which is more evenly spread across areas &#8211; though still shows concentration on the outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The white population has decreased in the province from\u00a0482,115 (5%) in 2001, to\u00a0423,594 (3.5%) in 2011, the data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Frith has produced a number of maps relating to South Africa &#8211; mostly <a title=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Maps_by_Htonl\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Maps_by_Htonl\" target=\"_blank\">for use on Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; including sites that break down census and election data.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a title=\"http:\/\/adrianfrith.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/adrianfrith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">view more on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on race<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"SA\u2019s \u201cracial\u201d economy needs transformation: Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/81681\/sas-racial-economy-needs-transformation-zuma\/\"><strong>SA\u2019s \u201cracial\u201d economy needs transformation: Zuma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Too many whites in Gauteng\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/80085\/too-many-whites-in-gauteng\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Too many whites in Gauteng<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA identity based on race: study\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75038\/sa-identity-based-on-race-study\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA identity based on race: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Uncovering SA employment by race\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/68842\/uncovering-sa-employment-by-race\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Uncovering SA employment by race<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA more unequal today than during apartheid: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75826\/sa-more-unequal-today-than-during-apartheid-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA more unequal today than during apartheid: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s racial distribution across the country&#8217;s three major cities shows that very little has happened in the way of breaking through the &#8220;spacial legacy&#8221; of apartheid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,9651,853],"class_list":["post-83319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-maps","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83415,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83319\/revisions\/83415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}