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General

Offieial name: Republie of Sout h Afriea

Nationality: South African

Capital eities: Pretoria (administrative) 1.1 million; ~

lmID (legislative) 2,4 million; Bloemfontein (judieiall 0.3 mil-

lion {2009~

Main eities 1 .Y.I.bID areas: Durban 2.1 million: Johannesburg

1.4 million: Port Elizabeth 0.7 million {2009 est.l

Languages: South Afriea has 11 official languages: IsiZulu

23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%,

English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga

4,4%, SiSwati 2,7%, Tshivenda 2.3%, IsiNdebele 1.6%.

English is the main language for government, offieial and

business life,

Country telephone code: +27

Internet domain: .za

Time zone: South Afriean Standard Time"" CET (Central Eu-

ropean Time) + 1 hour

Curreney: South African rand (ZAR): (1 = R9.97

Politics

Type of government: republie

Head of state and government: President Jacob Zuma (since

9 May 2009)

Offieial government website: http://www.gov.za

Economv (in US$)

G.Qf (at Durchasiog power par ity. PPP): $488.6 b.i.t!i.cw.

(200 9 es!,)

GOP (PPP) per head: $10,000 (2009 es!.)

GOP real i!l!llW growth: -1.9% (2009 est.), down from 3.1 %

In 2008

Populat ion below poyerty level : 50% (2000 es!.)

Inflation: 7.2% (2009 es!.)

Unemployment: 24% (2009 est.)

People

Population: 49 million (2009 est.)

Population growth per year: 0.28% (2009 est.)

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Age strueture:

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  5.7 million (2007 es!.)
  Main religions: lion Christjan (11.1 %), Pentecostall Charis-
  matic (8.2%), Catholic (7.1 %). Methodist (6.8%), Dulch
  Reformed (6.7%). Anglican (3.8%), Muslim (1.5%), other
  Christian (36%), other (2.3%) (2001 census)
  Et hnie groups: black African 79%, white 9.6%, coloured
  8.9%, Indian I Asian 2.5% (2001 census)

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• Under apartheid, soccer was the most papular sport
  among black people and rugby the most papular sport
  among whites. The lirst national soccer and rugby
  teams were formed after South Alriea became a
  democracy in 1994.


• One of former presidenl Nelson Mandela's lirst moves
  10 unile the land was to encourage the national rug-
  by team, the Springboks, to win the 1995 Rugby
  World Cup. Many blacks associated the name "Spring-
  boks" with apartheid, yet Mandela insisted that the
  team keep ils name and cotours. They won the World
  Cup. an event that is now regarded as one of the
  greatest moments in the hislory of South Alrkan sport


• and that helped to bring the country together. The
  story 01 this success is the subject 01 a major li Im
  directed by Clint Eastwood, called Invictus, which
  came out earlier this year.

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