One million is a big number - I'm in shock.

One million white South Africans - almost a fifth - have left the country in the past ten years. This figure was released this week in a report from the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR).

Frans Cronjé, who compiled the report, said it were especially crime and affirmative action which had driven a fifth of South Africa's white population out of the country.

The figures for 2005 put the number of white South Africans in the country at 4.3 million, 841 000 fewer than the 5.2 million of 1995.
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