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The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of the African continent. It borders the countries of Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , Mozambique , and Eswatini , and entirely surrounds Lesotho .
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South Africa has the largest population of people of European descent in Africa, one of the largest Indian population outside of Asia , as well as the largest Coloured (of mixed European, Asian and African descent) community in Africa, making it one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the continent. Racial and ethnic strife between the black majority and the white minority have played a large part in the country's history and politics . The National Party began introducing the policy of apartheid after winning the general election of 1948 ; however, it was the same party under the leadership of F.W. de Klerk who started to dismantle it in 1990 after a long struggle by the black majority, as well as many white, coloured and Indian South Africans.
The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup d'état , and regular free and fair elections have been held since 1994 , making it a regional power and among the most stable and liberal democracies in Africa.
South Africa is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank . It has the second largest economy in Africa after Nigeria , and the 34th-largest in the world. By purchasing power parity , South Africa has the 7th highest per capita income in Africa. Although being the second largest economy, South Africa has the most sophisticated economy in the continent, with modern infrastructure common throughout the country. The country is considered to be a newly industrialized country according to the World Bank classifications.
Pretoria (prih-TOR -ee-ə, pree- ; Afrikaans: [prəˈtʊəria] ⓘ ), also known as Tshwane , is South Africa's administrative capital , serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa .
Pretoria straddles the
Apies River and extends eastward into the foothills of the
Magaliesberg mountains. It has a reputation as an academic city and center of research, being home to the
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), the
University of Pretoria (UP), the
University of South Africa (UNISA), the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and the
Human Sciences Research Council . It also hosts the
National Research Foundation and the
South African Bureau of Standards . Pretoria was one of the host cities of the
2010 FIFA World Cup . (
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Noordhoek is a coastal town in the
Western Cape , South Africa, located below
Chapman's Peak on the west coast of the
Cape Peninsula and is approximately 35 km (22 mi) to the south of Cape Town. The beach is a six-kilometre (3.7 mi) stretch of fine white sand used by walkers and horse-riders; winds are often strong and the sea is cold and wild. The neighbouring suburb of
Kommetjie can be seen in the distance.
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Desmond Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian , known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist . He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from Black theology with African theology .
Tutu was born of mixed
Xhosa and
Motswana heritage to a poor family in
Klerksdorp ,
South Africa . Entering adulthood, he trained as a teacher and married
Nomalizo Leah Tutu , with whom he had several children. In 1960, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1962 moved to the United Kingdom to study theology at
King's College London . In 1966 he returned to southern Africa, teaching at the
Federal Theological Seminary and then the
University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland . In 1972, he became the Theological Education Fund's director for Africa, a position based in London but necessitating regular tours of the African continent. Back in southern Africa in 1975, he served first as
dean of
St Mary's Cathedral in
Johannesburg and then as
Bishop of Lesotho ; from 1978 to 1985 he was general-secretary of the
South African Council of Churches . He emerged as one of the most prominent opponents of South Africa's
apartheid system of
racial segregation and
white minority rule . Although warning the
National Party government that anger at apartheid would lead to racial violence, as an activist he stressed
non-violent protest and foreign economic pressure to bring about
universal suffrage . (
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Craven in New Zealand in 1956
Daniël Hartman Craven (11 October 1910 – 4 January 1993) was a South African rugby union player (1931–1938), national coach, national and international rugby administrator, academic, and author. Popularly known as Danie, Doc, or Mr Rugby, Craven's appointment from 1949 to 1956 as coach of the Springboks signalled "one of the most successful spells in South African rugby history" during which the national team won 74% of their matches. While as a player Craven is mostly remembered as one of rugby's greatest dive-passing scrumhalves ever, he had also on occasion been selected to play for the Springboks as a centre , fly-half , No.8 , and full-back . As the longest-serving President of the South African Rugby Board (1956–93) and chairman of the International Rugby Board (1962, 1973, 1979), Craven became one of the best-known and most controversial rugby administrators. In 1969, Craven sparked outrage among anti-apartheid activists when he allegedly said, "There will be a black springbok over my dead body". Craven denied saying this and in his later career promoted coloured training facilities.
Craven earned doctorates in ethnology (1935), psychology (1973) and physical education (1978). He not only created the physical training division of the South African Defence Force (1941) but became the first professor of physical education at Stellenbosch University (1949). (Full article... )
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Image 2 Shaka Zulu in traditional
Zulu military garb (from
History of South Africa )
Image 4 Indian indentured labourers arriving in Durban (from
History of South Africa )
Image 5 Emily Hobhouse campaigned against the appalling conditions of the
British concentration camps in South Africa, thus influencing British public opinion against the war. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 6 Flag of the South African Republic , often referred to as the
Vierkleur (meaning four-coloured) (from
History of South Africa )
Image 7 Simon's Town harbour and naval base in South Africa were used by the Allies during World War II. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 8 Statue of Bartolomeu Dias at the High Commission of South Africa in London. He was the first European navigator to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 9 Gateway to the
Castle of Good Hope , the oldest building in South Africa (from
Culture of South Africa )
Image 10 View of
Table Bay with ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), c. 1683. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 11 Map of the black homelands in South Africa at the end of apartheid in 1994 (from
History of South Africa )
Image 12 Boer
Voortrekkers depicted in an early artist's rendition (from
History of South Africa )
Image 13 Regional geography during the period of the Anglo–Boer wars:
South African Republic /Transvaal
Orange Free State British
Cape Colony Natal Colony (from
History of South Africa )
Image 15 Nicolaas Waterboer, Griqualand ruler, 1852–1896 (from
History of South Africa )
Image 16 Groot Constantia , the oldest
wine estate in South Africa, was founded in 1685 by
Simon van der Stel . The
South African wine industry (New World wine) is among the lasting legacy of the
VOC era . The recorded
economic history of South Africa began with the VOC period. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 17 Jan van Riebeeck , first Commander of the Dutch East India Company colony (from
History of South Africa )
Image 18 "For use by white persons" – sign from the apartheid era (from
History of South Africa )
Image 19 Looking out over the floodplains of the Luvuvhu River (right) and the Limpopo River (far distance and left) (from
History of South Africa )
Image 20 Replica of an
East Indiaman of the
Dutch East India Company /
United East Indies Company (VOC). The Dutch East India Company was a major force behind the (c. 1590s–1720s) and
Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s–1670s). (from
History of South Africa )
Image 21 Church on
Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa with a banner memorialising the Marikana massacre (from
History of South Africa )
Image 23 The
statue of
Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of
Cape Town , in Heerengracht Street. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 24 An account of the first
trekboers (from
History of South Africa )
Image 25 King
Cetshwayo (ca. 1875) (from
History of South Africa )
Image 26 Cecil John Rhodes, co-founder of De Beers Consolidated Mines at Kimberley (from
History of South Africa )
Image 27 The
British Empire is red on the map, at its territorial zenith in the late 1910s and early 1920s. (
India highlighted in purple.) South Africa, bottom centre, lies between both halves of the Empire. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 28 King Moshoeshoe with his advisors (from
History of South Africa )
Image 29 Generals Smuts (right) and Botha were members of the British
Imperial War Cabinet during World War I. (from
History of South Africa )
Image 31 Frederik W. de Klerk and
Nelson Mandela , two of the driving forces in ending apartheid (from
History of South Africa )
Image 32 Daniel François Malan , National Party leader from 1934 to 1953 (from
History of South Africa )
Image 33 An array of traditional South African cuisine (from
Culture of South Africa )
Image 34 Union Buildings , government administrative centre, Pretoria,
c. 1925 (from
History of South Africa )
Image 35 Johannesburg before gold mining transformed it into a bustling modern city (from
History of South Africa )
Image 37 Harry Smith (from
History of South Africa )
Image 38 The rise of the Zulu Empire
under Shaka forced other chiefdoms and clans to flee across a wide area of southern Africa. Clans fleeing the Zulu war zone
included the
Soshangane ,
Zwangendaba ,
Ndebele ,
Hlubi ,
Ngwane , and the
Mfengu . Some clans were caught between the Zulu Empire and advancing
Voortrekkers and
British Empire such as the
Xhosa . (from
History of South Africa )
Image 39 Meat on a traditional South African
braai (from
Culture of South Africa )
Image 40 Oracles of the Pink Universe by Simphiwe Ndzube, 2021 (from
Culture of South Africa )
Image 41 Painting of the Sharpeville massacre of March 1960 (from
History of South Africa )
Image 43 The
Castle of Good Hope (
Kasteel de Goede Hoop in Dutch), Cape Town. Founded officially in 1652,
Kaapstad /Cape Town is the oldest
urban area in South Africa. (from
History of South Africa )
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