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  2. Pakistanis in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Punjabi · Pashto · English · Urdu. Pakistanis in South Africa include Overseas Pakistanis and people of Pakistani descent who reside in South Africa. [3] [needs update] The majority of them live in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Grahamstown . Many expatriates run spaza shops, cellphone stores; and the Johannesburg 's Fordsburg is said ...

  3. Pakistani diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Religion. Predominantly Islam minorities of Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Overseas Pakistanis ( Urdu: بیرون ملک پاکستانی نژاد ), or the Pakistani diaspora, refers to Pakistanis who live outside of Pakistan. These include citizens that have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Pakistani descent.

  4. Indian South Africans - Wikipedia

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    70–80%. 80–100%. Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India.

  5. Sharpeville massacre - Wikipedia

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    Injured. 180. Assailants. South African Police. The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960 at the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng ). After demonstrating against anti-black pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 black protesters went to the ...

  6. Siddi - Wikipedia

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    Siddi. The Siddi ( pronounced [sɪdːiː] ), also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India. They are primarily descended from the Bantu peoples of the Zanj coast in Southeast Africa, most of whom came to the Indian subcontinent through the Arab Slave Trade. [ 6]

  7. South Africa and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

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    From the 1960s to the 1990s, South Africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, [2] biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government. South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine was designed for political leverage rather than actual battlefield use, specifically to induce the United States of America ...

  8. Internal resistance to apartheid - Wikipedia

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    After assisting in the 1948 general election, Schwarz, Uys Krige, Sailor Malan, and others formed the Torch Commando, an ex-soldiers' movement to protest against the disenfranchisement of the coloured people in South Africa. From the 1960s, when he was Leader of the Opposition in the Transvaal, he became well-known and achieved prominence as a ...

  9. Category:Pakistani people of South African descent - Wikipedia

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    Mathira. Categories: Pakistani people of African descent. Asian people of South African descent. PakistanSouth Africa relations.