Brief Introduction Capital: Pretoria Area: total: 1220000 The important Festival: National day: May 31 Population: 46,900,000 Language: 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu. Currency: ZAR

South Africa

Geography

Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa

Administrative divisions

9 provinces; Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West, Northern Cape, Western Cape

Economy – overview

South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.

Culture and media

Newspaper:

Beeld, Burger, Die, Business Report, Citizen, The, Financial Mail, IOL / Independent News and Media, Landbou Volksblad, Nánfēi Zhōngwén Wǎng.

TV Station :

Channel Africa, SABC News.