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LOCALITATION
South Africa(Introduction)
Today we are going to talk about South Africa,for example:
The Goverment. The World Cup. The History. And a about a lot
of things more.
The Republic of South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa.
In South Africa there are a lot of languages: Afrikáans, English, Ndebele, Sesotho, Sesotho sa leboa, Setsuana, Suazi, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulú.
The History Of South Africa(From 1867 to 1939)
The discover of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 iniciate a war for the control of the mineral recurds of the country between Bóers and Britanics(1880-1881), Britanics lost the war but in the second Bóer war(1899-1902)Britanics won Bóers.In 1934 the South African party and the Nacional patys join to unite Africaners with white angloparlants people but it unsuccessful in 1939 with the entrance of the country in the Second World War allied to UK but the most conservator wing of the party was simpated with the nazi Germany during the war and it separe the party.
The History Of South Africa(From 1939 to 1974)
In 1948 the Nacional Political Party get the power of the colony and plead a segregacionist and racist system,for example the right to vote president was reserbed to white people only,and black people had to live far away the zones who lived white people.This system wants separe the white race from black race having all the privileges white people. Then in 1960 the 52% of the country vote to separe of Britain,and South Africa obtain the complete independence.
The History Of South Africa(From 1975 to 2010)
In the 1975 the goverment of South Africa send Nelson Mandela to the prision and he took off the prision in 1993,he stay 18 years in prision.And one of the best things happen to South Africa was when Frederic Willem De Klark liberate Nelson Mandela of the prision in 1993.In 1993 white people acceps black people can vote,in 1994 were the first democratic elections to change the goverment and Nelson Mandela wins the elections and becames to be the president of South Africa with the CNA political party,that party nowadays has the political power of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was the first black president in South Africa. He was 18 years in prision for his idealist ideas,but when he took of the prision he came to be the president.
Ethnics These are the percents of the ethnics who
live in South Africa: 79.3% are black people, 9.1% white, 9%
coloured and 2.6% are asiatic people.
Information
Nowadays the president is Jacob Zuma since 9 of May of 2009,the 70% of the votes were to his party CNA,and the form of govern is republic.South Africa has got 1.219.912 km² and a population of 49.320.000(40.4 hab/km²).The coin they use is the Rand (ZAR)and they schedule is SAST (UTC+2),the telephone code is +27 and the radiofonic code is S8A-S8Z.South Africa is menber of UA, ONU, Commonwealth and G20.
Rivers The principal rivers are the river Orange
that flow in Atlantic Ocean,the Vaal river that is the principal afluent and the Limpopo that flow in the Indic Ocean, it born near Johannesburg and it marks in the north the frontier with Botswana and Zimbabwe.
The Capitals The execuive capital is
Pretoria,judicial capital is Bloemfontein,Cape Town is the legislative capital and the most populate city is Johannesburg (2006)
ProvinceProvince Capital Area (km²) Population
(2007)
Eastern Cape Bhisho 169,580 6,527,747
Free State Bloemfontein 129,480 2,773,059
Gauteng Johannesburg 17,010 10,451,713
KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg 92,100 10,259,230
Limpopo Polokwane 123,900 5,238,286
Mpumalanga Nelspruit 79,490 3,643,435
Northern Cape Kimberley 361,830 1,058,060
North West Mafikeng 116,320 3,271,948
Western Cape Cape Town 129,370 5,278,585
Total 1,219,080 48,502,063
Metods Of Comunication They have some metods of comunication,for
example the internet,there are about 67500 connections,and an other good example are the newspapers:The Star,The Sowetan and This Day are edited in Johannesburgo,Isolezwe is edited in Cape Town and Daily Sun is edited in Gauteng.
South Africa & Music In the revolt of South Africa between ’70s
and ’80s the politics of South Africa prohibit the Bob Marley music because his music could unificate the South African poor people and rebel to the goverment.
South Africa & Sports They have béisbol and basketball selections,
but críquet and rugby selections are the most important in South Africa, críquet is very important,South Africa was one of the headquarters of the world cup in 2003,and the rugby selection,called Springboks,has got very good players and they have won the World Cup Of South Africa in 1995 and other World Cup in 2007.
It has got some different sports teams: Football selection,who ‘ll be play in the South
Africa World Cup 2010,it was presented to FIFA for the World Cup of the 2006 but it wons Germany for only one point,but Mandela tries again and he won the votations to the World cup of the 2010.
South Africa 2010 This is the logo of the Football World Cup
Of South Africa 2010 and the stadiums they are going to use for the cup:
Soccer City
And this is the stadium called Soccer City they are going to use for the final that is in Johannesburg:
World Cup Of South Africa2010
This is the official song of the South Africa World Cup:
The original hymn of South Africa
This is the original nacional hymn of South Africa called “Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika” ,but they sing this song in all Africa:
We hope you like our presentation and thank you for listened.
By Jon & Xabi
