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DUTCH PEOPLE IN AFRICA :''See also Afrikaner Dutch settlement began in the Cape Of Good Hope in southern Africa during the period of colonisation by the Dutch East India Company . By the late nineteenth century, Afrikaner settlers had crossed the Limpopo river into Mashonaland , now part of Zimbabwe . In the early 1900s following the Anglo-Boer War , large numbers of Afrikaner colonists travelled north to British East Africa and settled in what is now Kenya and Tanzania , as well as in Angola . The Afrikaner colonies outside South Africa and Namibia diminished in size following the Second World War, and the majority of settlers and their descendants returned to South Africa. BRITISH PEOPLE IN AFRICA See also Anglo-African Although there were small temporary British settlements along the West Africa n coast from the 1700s onwards, British settlement in Africa begain in earnest only at the end of the eighteenth century, in the Cape Of Good Hope . It gained momentum following British annexation of the Cape from the Dutch East India Company, and the subsequent encouragement of Settlers in the Eastern Cape in an effort to consolidate the colony's eastern border. In the late nineteenth century the discovery of Gold and Diamond s further encouraged colonisation of South Africa by Britons. The search for gold drove expansion north into the Rhodesia s (now Zimbabwe , Zambia and Malawi ). Simultaneously, British settlers began expansion into the fertile uplands (often called the " White Highlands ") of British East Africa (now Kenya and Tanzania). In all these colonies, a number of settlers remained to live following independence and the introduction of majority rule in the second half of the twentieth century. FRENCH PEOPLE IN AFRICA See also French Rule In Algeria and Pieds Noirs Large numbers of French people settled in French North Africa from the 1840s onwards. By the end of French rule in 1960 there were over one million French colonists (known as ''pieds noirs'', or "black feet") living in Algeria {Link without Title} . No other region of the French African colonial empire attracted similar settlement, although there is still a comparatively large white population living in the former West Africa n colony of Côte D'Ivoire . PORTUGUESE PEOPLE IN AFRICA The first Portuguese settlements in Africa were built in the sixteenth century. In the late seventeenth century much of Mozambique was divided into ''prazos'', or agricultural estates, which were settled by Portuguese families. In the early twentieth century the Portuguese government encouraged white emigration to Angola and Mozambique , and by the 1960s there were around 250,000 white people living in Portugal's overseas African provinces, and a substantial Portuguese population living in other African countries. Many Portuguese settlers returned to Portugal as the country's African possessions gained independence in the 1970s, while others moved south to South Africa. CURRENT POPULATIONS (2005 EST. FROM CIA) White Population by Country
Total: Approximately 5,000,000 Note : The South African white population is believed to be higher, reaching a total of 5 (likely 5.1 or 5.2) million. Many white people live in tight private, gated neighborhoods, or farms, and did not receive or return a census form. At this same time a force of 100,000 temporary employees tracked down nearly every legal black resident, although it's believed 3 to 5 million illegal or unregistered black people are also in the country. A more accurate estimate may be that 12% of South Africa's population is white. The white population of Zimbabwe was much higher in the 1960s (when the country was known as Rhodesia ), when it was 270 000 at its highest. After the introduction of majority rule in 1980 many white people left the country. SEE ALSO |
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