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The first Chinese to settle in South Africa were prisoners, usually debtors, exiled from Batavia by the Dutch to their then newly founded colony at Cape Town in 1660. . Originally the Dutch wanted to recruit Chinese settlers to settle in the colony as farmers, thereby helping establish the colony and create a tax base so the colony would be less of a drain on Dut
Chinese South Africans are an ethnic group of Chinese diaspora in South Africa. They and their ancestors immigrated to South Africa beginning during the Dutch colonial era in the Cape Colony. Since 2000 an estimated 350,000 Chinese immigrations, most of whom came from mainland China, have settled in South Africa. [67]
In late 2006, the Chinese Association of South Africa filed suit to have Chinese South Africans recognised as having been disadvantaged under apartheid, to benefit from Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). Complicating this attempt was the presence of recent immigrant Chinese who had not been disadvantaged by apartheid.
According to Melanie Yap and Daniel Leong Man in their book "Colour, Confusions, and Concessions: the History of Chinese in South Africa", Chu Ssu-pen, a Chinese mapmaker in 1320, had southern Africa drawn on one of his maps. Ceramics found in Zimbabwe and South Africa dated back to the Song dynasty. Some tribes to Cape Town's north claimed ...
South African people of Taiwanese descent (1 C) Pages in category "South African people of Chinese descent" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
In 1976, the Republic of China and South Africa opened embassies. Since 1998, the People's Republic of China and South Africa has recognised each other. From 1991 to 1997, the People's Republic of China hosted the 'Chinese Center for South African Studies' in Pretoria, headed by a diplomat in the rank of ambassador.
In 2018, the Chinese government announced at the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that China would increase its scholarship offerings to African students from 30,000 in 2015 to 50,000. According to the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 81,562 African students studied in China in 2018, a 770% increase compared ...
South Africa has 5,176,000 coloureds, Namibia 143,000 and Zimbabwe 17,000. Tens of millions of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa are Eurasians, mixed race or have at least one Eurasian ancestor. Egypt has 42 million, [89] Ethiopia 19 million, [90] Madagascar 15 million [91] and South Africa 11 million. [92]