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Article: South Africa.
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- Country Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Capital: Pretoria (administrative); Blomemfontein
(judicial); (legislative)
Population: 43.1 million
Climate: Temperate South coast; tropical northeast.
Languages:Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Pedi, English, Tswana,
Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda, Ndebele
Total Area: 1,221,037 square kilometres
Ethnic Groups:77% black, 10% white (of which 60% Afrikaner
descent, rest British), 8% mixed race, 2.5%
Indian, Asian descent
Religion: Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish
Currency: Rand
Total ...