What would South Africa have been like if it was never colonized?

Answer 1

Colonization had many positive and negative effects on the country. If colonization never took place; those effects would have been absent. According to the opinions of historians and analysts, colonization was good in the sense that it brought economic development to countries at the expense of Another Country. For example, when South Africa was part of the British colony, the city of Cape Town had grown significantly. Labour was imported. Machinery was imported. Farms grew. Many mines appeared. South Africa began trading big with the rest of the world. More people from Britain settled in South Africa to start businesses. Thus cities grew larger and larger. But, who had benefited? There was no Reserve Bank of South Africa. The indigenous people were not educated to start businesses. They worked for the British. But, they had to buy food and other goods to survive. They bought from British owned shops and thus only the British made money to keep. Since the indigenous people started working in these industries, they had depended on money to survive and not hunting or subsistence farming. Thus their cultures were destroyed. These are but a few effects. Now think about the opposite. If South Africa was not colonized, there would be slow development. The indigenous people did not have the knowledge, skills or funds to open mines etc. They would not have had any income. They would have thus stuck to traditional ways to survive in their tribes by hunting etc. This is entirely based on opinion. Some people might have different views. It is what you make of it.

Answer 2

Undeveloped