2025 MAR 14 Jordan B Peterson (EP 538) w Dr Ernst Roets South Africa What the West Needs to Learn

Without prejudice
OPINION

DEMOGRAPHICS of South Africa

South Africa is a nation of about 62 million (as of 2022) people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions.¹ The last census² was held in 2022, with estimates produced on an annual basis. According to the United Nations' World Population Prospects³ , South Africa's total population was 55.3 million in 2015, compared to only 13.6 million in 1950.⁴ South Africa is home to an estimated five million illegal immigrants⁵ , including some three million Zimbabweans.⁶ , ⁷, ⁸ A series of anti-immigrant riots⁹ occurred beginning in May 2008.¹⁰, ¹¹ Statistics South Africa¹² asks people to describe themselves in the census in terms of five racial population groups.¹³

THE 2022 CENSUS FIGURES FOR THESE GROUPS WERE:

• Black African¹⁴ at 81%,

• Coloured¹⁵ at 8.2%,

• White¹⁶ at 7.3%,

• Indian or Asian¹⁷ at 2.7%

• Other/Unspecified at 0.5%.¹⁸

The first census in 1911 showed that whites made up 22% of the population; this had declined to 16% by 1980.¹⁹

South Africa hosts a sizeable refugee and asylum seeker population.

According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants²⁰ , this population numbered approximately 144,700 in 2007.²¹ Groups of refugees and asylum seekers numbering over 10,000 included people from Zimbabwe (48,400), the DRC (24,800), and Somalia (12,900).²² These populations mainly lived in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban²³ , Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth.²⁴ , ²⁵

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with South African filmmaker, author, and activist Dr. Ernst Roets. They discuss the genetic and cultural hyper-diversity of Africa, the early settlement patterns of South Africa, the origin story of the Boers, how forgotten history breeds rhyming conflicts in the present, and the complex needle that must be threaded for shared prosperity.

Dr. Ernst Roets is an Afrikaner activist, author and filmmaker from South Africa.

He serves as Executive Director of the newly established Pioneer Initiative, which seeks to promote a more sustainable political dispensation for South Africa, based on the principles of decentralization and self-governance.

Dr Roets is the leading expert on the topic of farm murders in South Africa. His book, Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders is an international bestseller on Amazon.

He is also the producer of several documentary films. He regularly appears in the media - both in South Africa and the international media - about issues relating to South Africa and he regularly speaks at international conferences, including CPAC and NatCon.

He is a leading advocate for the protection of free speech and property rights in South Africa, and for farm murders to be regarded as a priority crime.

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Acknowledgement Original Sources

Media Segment Credit to: Jordan B Peterson and Dr Ernst Roets | YT-handle: @JordanBPeterson | YT-tagline: South Africa: What the West Needs to Learn | YT-clip: XHhPc7o7Jig | YT-date-(AWST): March 14th, 2025 | 4CM-notes: Jordan B Peterson (EP 538) ALL LINKS: feedlink.io/jordanbpeterson

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2. {SEE URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_National_Census_of_2022 }

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15. {SEE URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds }

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24. {SEE URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Elizabeth }

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