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    Population distribution in South Africa is uneven, with higher densities in areas with good mining resources like gold and diamonds around Johannesburg and Kimberly, or fertile soils and high rainfall for farming in places like the Garden Route, Cape Town, and Durban. The core areas around ports and with trading potential, like Durban and Cape Town, are more densely populated and developed than the periphery. Internal migration is mainly caused by economic opportunities in industrial areas, forced movement under apartheid, or voluntary movement after its collapse.

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    Population distribution in South Africa is uneven, with higher densities in areas with good mining resources like gold and diamonds around Johannesburg and Kimberly, or fertile soils and high rainfall for farming in places like the Garden Route, Cape Town, and Durban. The core areas around ports and with trading potential, like Durban and Cape Town, are more densely populated and developed than the periphery. Internal migration is mainly caused by economic opportunities in industrial areas, forced movement under apartheid, or voluntary movement after its collapse.

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    Uneven Population Distribution in South Africa

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    Population distribution in South Africa is uneven, with higher densities in areas with good mining resources like gold and diamonds around Johannesburg and Kimberly, or fertile soils and high rainfall for farming in places like the Garden Route, Cape Town, and Durban. The core areas around ports and with trading potential, like Durban and Cape Town, are more densely populated and developed than the periphery. Internal migration is mainly caused by economic opportunities in industrial areas, forced movement under apartheid, or voluntary movement after its collapse.

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    UNEVEN

    POPULATION
    DISTRIBUTION IN
    SOUTH AFRICA

    GOLD AND DIAMOND FERTILE SOILS


    MINING HIGH POPULATION DENSITIES WHERE THERE IS
    FARMING POTENTIAL + HIGH RAINFALL+ FLAT
    HIGH POPULATION LAND
    E.G THE GARDEN ROUTE, CAPE TOWN, DURBAN
    DENSITIES WHERE THERE IS
    GOOD MINERAL
    RESOURCES

    E.G GOLD AND DIAMOND MINES AROUND


    JOHANNESBURG AND KIMBERLY

    CORE VS PERIPHERY PORTS- TRADING


    THE CORE IS MORE HIGH POPULATION
    DENSELY POPULATED THAN DENSITY WHERE THERE IS
    THE PERIPHERY GOOD TRADING POTENTIAL

    Durban and Capetown


    THE CORE IS MORE DEVELOPED AND IT HAS BETTER
    INFRASTRUCTURE AND A HIGHER VARIETY AND
    QUALITY OF GOODS AND SERVICES THAN THE
    PERIPHERY

    INTERNAL MIGRATION
    MAINLY CAUSED BY:

    Economic migration due to industrial


    development- job opportunities in core.
    Forced migration due to apartheid;
    Voluntary migration due to collapse of the
    apartheid system.

    The apartheid system is a political and social


    system implemented in South Africa whem it was
    under colonial rule. This system imposed racial
    segregation; separating black and white south
    africans.

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