Apartheid in South Africa ended in 1990. However, more than 30 years later we learn that apartheid is still existing in South Africa!
However, the since 1994 continuously ruling ANC party likes to keep apartheid alive in South Africa. What purpose does it serve? Paradox? Weird? Or to deflect from the failures of the ANC party?
One of the authors of the paper is Timnit Gebru, she is one of the darlings of leftists after she was fired by Google in 2020!
South Africa's government: "It is a well known fact that the apartheid sought to separate and racially divide South Africans. This was not just done through pass laws and separate development but even in the way black people were settled in the country and especially in the urban areas. ..."
From the abstract:
"Aerial images of neighborhoods in South Africa show the clear legacy of apartheid, a former policy of political and economic discrimination against non-European groups, with completely segregated neighborhoods of townships next to gated wealthy areas. This paper introduces the first publicly available dataset to study the evolution of spatial apartheid, using 6, 768 high resolution satellite images of 9 provinces in South Africa, 550 of which are labeled. Our dataset was created using polygons demarcating land use, geographically labelled coordinates of buildings in South Africa, and high resolution satellite imagery covering the country from 2006-2017. We describe our iterative process to create this dataset over two years, which includes pixel-wise labels for 4 classes of neighborhoods: wealthy areas, non wealthy areas, nonresidential neighborhoods and background (land without buildings). While datasets 7 times smaller than ours have cost over $1M to annotate, our dataset was created with highly constrained resources. We finally show examples of applications examining the evolution of neighborhoods in South Africa using our dataset."
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