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FLAG: MEANING AND INSPIRATION

-Adopted on 27 April 1994;
-Comes from 3 major flags;
-The red, white and blue represent white people;
-The black, yellow and green represent black
people;
-The “Y” stands for the “union” of both groups.
 LANGUAGES
-Eleven official languages:
afrikaans, english, ndebele, northern
sotho, sotho, siswati, tsonga, tswana, Zulu
Most Spoken Languages
22.7

venda, xhosa and zulu;

Xhosa 16

-Dutch and English were the Afrikaans 13.5

first official languages of South
English 9.6

Africa from 1910 to 1925; 0 5 10 15 20 25

 MAIN CITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
-Johannesburg (7.860.781)
-Cape Town – Legislative Capital (3.740.026)
-Durban (3.442.361)
-Germiston-Ekurhuleni (3.178.470)
-Pretoria - Executive Capital (2.921.488)
-Bloemfontein – Judicial Capital (256.185)
-Total Population (57,725,600)
 TRADITIONAL SPORTS
-Football, cricket and rugby are the most popular
sports;
-South Africa is one of the four countries who have
played World Cups of all these three major sports;
-South Africa hosted the 1995 Rugby World Cup,
the 2003 Cricket World Cup and the 2010 Football
World Cup.
 NATIONAL GASTRONOMY
The South African cuisine comes, not only from the african
people, but also from the costumes introduced by the british
and dutsch colonizers:
-Biltong (dried meat);
-Koeksisters (a syrupy braided pastry);
-Boerewors (seasoned sausage);
-Pineapple beer.
 FUN FACTS
-Table Mountain in Cape Town is one of the oldest mountains in the
World;
-South Africa has deserts, wetlands, grasslands, bush, subtropical
forests, mountains;

-South Africa’s drinking water is rated 3rd best in the world for being
“safe and ready to drink”;
-South Africa is the only country that has voluntarily abandoned its
nuclear weapons programme;
-The world’s largest themed resort hotel (The Palace of the Lost City) is
found in South Africa. Surrounding the Hotel is a 25 hectare manmade
botanical jungle with almost 2 million plants, trees and shrubs.