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English Speaking World: South Africa 🇿🇦

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English Speaking World: South Africa 🇿🇦

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South Africa 🇿🇦

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Have you been to South Africa?

The southernmost country on the African continent.

It has a population of about 60,000,000 people.

1,219,090 sq. km. (less than twice the size of Texas) with 2,798 km of coastline.

Great natural beauty, cultural diversity, complicated history.

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English is an official language... how many official languages are there.

Eleven official languages: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho), Setswana, Swati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga → many South Africans mix and match them together.

Some History

In 1652 the Dutch established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope. The Dutch settlers became known as Boers (Dutch: “Farmers”) and later as Afrikaners (for their Afrikaans language).

In 1795 British forces captured the cape. Following the South African War (1902), the British also annexed the Northern territories, which had been occupied by Boer settlers (independent Boer republics of Orange Free State and the South African Republic).

In 1910 the British colonies of Cape Colony, Transvaal, Natal and Orange River were unified into the new Union of South Africa, which became independent and withdrew from the Commonwealth in 1961.

Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness” or “separateness”) → policy of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European ethnic groups. Formally instituted in 1948, legal dismantling began in 1990.

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Discrimination is ___ .

- Nelson Mandela, first black president (1994). - Non-racial constitution (1997).

Fun Facts

Some of the earliest human remains in the fossil record are found in South Africa

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This is sometimes known as...

South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Town (legislative).

South Africa's Bloukrans Bridge hosts the highest natural bungee jump in the world.

5 national symbols: king protea flower, yellowwood tree, springbok , galjoen fish and blue crane.

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"Howzit my bru?" What does this mean?

⛰️ The Great Escarpment, or Drakensberg (Afrikaans: “Dragon Mountains”).

🏖️ The Garden Route, 200 km. stretch of coast connecting Mossel Bay to the Storms River Mouth.

🏜️ The Kalahari desert.

“Perhaps one of the most outstanding things about South African culture is that it is not one single culture, but rather a range of different cultures representing every level of a very stratified community. Hybrid mixtures of these different cultures also exist, making South Africa one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world.”

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South Africa 🇿🇦

The southernmost country on the African continent.

It has a population of about 60,000,000 people.

1,219,090 sq. km. (less than twice the size of Texas) with 2,798 km of coastline.

Great natural beauty, cultural diversity, complicated history.

Eleven official languages: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho), Setswana, Swati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga → many South Africans mix and match them together.

Some History

In 1652 the Dutch established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope. The Dutch settlers became known as Boers (Dutch: “Farmers”) and later as Afrikaners (for their Afrikaans language).

In 1795 British forces captured the cape. Following the South African War (1902), the British also annexed the Northern territories, which had been occupied by Boer settlers (independent Boer republics of Orange Free State and the South African Republic).

In 1910 the British colonies of Cape Colony, Transvaal, Natal and Orange River were unified into the new Union of South Africa, which became independent and withdrew from the Commonwealth in 1961.

Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness” or “separateness”) → policy of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European ethnic groups. Formally instituted in 1948, legal dismantling began in 1990.

- Nelson Mandela, first black president (1994). - Non-racial constitution (1997).

Fun Facts

Some of the earliest human remains in the fossil record are found in South Africa

South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Town (legislative).

South Africa's Bloukrans Bridge hosts the highest natural bungee jump in the world.

5 national symbols: king protea flower, yellowwood tree, springbok , galjoen fish and blue crane.

⛰️ The Great Escarpment, or Drakensberg (Afrikaans: “Dragon Mountains”).

🏖️ The Garden Route, 200 km. stretch of coast connecting Mossel Bay to the Storms River Mouth.

🏜️ The Kalahari desert.

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