SOUTH AFRICA

TEN FACTS

• Land mass: 1,221,037 km^2 (25th)
• Population: 54,002,000 (25th)
• Languages: Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, English, Southern Ndebele
• Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
• Religion: Christianity (80%)

CONTINUED FACTS

• Capital: Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative)
• President: Jacob Zuma
• Largest city: Johannesburg
• It's a "middle power" country
• Independence date: 11 December 1931

HISTORY

• Not much recorded history pre 1487
• Portugal landed in 1487
• They were just exploring, at first

CAPE TOWN

• 1652 Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town) Dutch
• Great Britain took over 1795
• The British annexed it in 1806
• The Dutch left and conquered other people groups

DIAMONDS

• Discovered in 1867
• Huge diamond rush

ANGLO-ZULU WAR

• British vs. Zulu
• 1879
• The Zulu won their independence

NELSON MANDELA

• Spent a long time in prison
• First black president of South Africa
• Overcame a lot of racism

ART

• Several cave paintings found in South Africa
• "Dynamic art" using plastic and bicycle spokes
• Kwaito music started by Native Africans

ECONOMY

• One of the highest in Africa
• Second best economy after Nigeria
• Ranked in the top 10 for income inequality

ISSUES

• Racism
• The whites oppressed the blacks
• It was really bad

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa#History