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Post South Africa's young white population is shrinking

The black African population group continues to be in the majority among the youth age group – age 15 – 34, accounting for 16.313 million people out of a total population of 19.586 million in 2014. That number is up from 15.208 million in 2009.

The coloured population in the same 15 – 34 category grew to 1.627 million in 2014, from 1.581 million in 2009, while for the Indian population, the number was up to 452,000, from 443,000.

For young whites, the number has declined to 1.193 million, from 1.245 million in 2009 – a difference of 52,000 people over five years.

Overall, the youth population in SA grew by 1.1 million to 19.586 million between 2009 and 2014 – 6.0%.

Read: This one graph shows that South Africans are leaving the country

The black African population group recorded the biggest increase growing by 7.3%, while the white population declined by 4.2%.

“This can be attributed to emigration and/or low levels of fertility amongst the white population group,” StatsSA said.

A report by the stats body, published in mid-2015 showed that 95,158 whites had left South Africa since 2011.

Statistician-general Pali Lehohla, said there was a trend among white children, who had just finished matric, to go elsewhere to gain some experience.

“They are better connected and I think that’s why, and also I think there is migration of white people out for a number of reasons.”

For example, a lot of white engineers had found employment in Dubai. The United States, New Zealand and the United Kingdom were among the countries South African whites had migrated too.

While over 95,000 whites had left South Africa since 2011, according to Stats SA’s estimates, white migration has slowed.

Between 1986 and 2000, 304,112 white South Africans left the country. Between 2001 and 2005, 133,782 whites emigrated, dropping to 112,046 between 2006 and 2011.

This meant between 2011 and 2015, 16,888 fewer whites left South Africa.

Many of those large families were very, very poor indeed. After the Anglo-Boer War, many were uneducated and destitute and they flocked to the Rand to work as unskilled mine labourers for a pittance and they lived in crumbling ghetto suburbs like Fordsburg and Pageview. In 1922 these white miners went on a violent strike against their mine-bosses who planned to hire black mineworkers instead, as they were cheaper. General Smuts resorted to bombing the strikers from his newly-established SA Air Force to quell the riots by white miners.

What do you call cheap labour? They provided skills and jobs which the people did not have before, if it was so bad they would of stayed at home farming. How many of the unskilled went on to create their own business? Without the new skills and money they could not have. If it was not cheap they would of found a way to do it with less labour. How do you think China built itself up? Now look at them earnings have shot up as they learn new and better skills to produce a better product. Unskilled labour is no

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