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south Afrika is a country blessed with an abundance of natural resources including fertile farmland and unique mineral resources. south afrikan mines are world leaders in the production of diamonds and gold as well as strategic metals such as platinum. south afrika was colonized by the british and Dutch in the seventeen's century. after independizing from great Britain, an uneasy power-shareing between the two descendent groups held until 1940's, when the Dutch descendents gain a major support. to get control over the economic and social system, the national party invented apartheid, the original plan was to maintein white domination whileextending racial separation. at the beggining of the 60's, a plan of "grand apartheid" was executed. consisted in territorial separation and police represion. race