Post-apartheid race divide widens

The fact that more than half a million white South Africans have left the country in the past 25 years should surprise no-one.

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Emigration is a fact of life, both in South Africa and around the world, as people move to improve their lives and the lives of their families.

Although that figure represents about 22,000 people per year, the other numbers in the latest Stats SA reporting on demographics in our country paint a broader picture of how the white community is shrinking, not only in terms of absolute numbers, but also in terms of its proportion of society.