Can you find South Africa on a map? What else do you know about this African nation with about 59 million people?
Can you find South Africa on a map? What else do you know about this African nation with about 59 million people?
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How Much Do You Know About South Africa?
Compiled byJOHN OTISJAN. 4, 2021
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History
The apartheid system, which segregated Black and white people, approached its end in 1994 whenbecame South Africa’s first Black president.
Desmond Tutu
Jacob Zuma
Nelson Mandela
Robert Mugabe
Society
, once the country’s largest Black township, was a symbol of the united resistance to the racist apartheid regime and home to the anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.
Durban
Khayelitsha
Port Elizabeth
Soweto
Geography
South Africa is the only country in the world with three national capitals. Which of the following South African cities is NOT a national capital?
Bloemfontein
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Archaeology
An area known as theis one of the world's most important fossil sites. Hominid remains excavated there strengthen the theory that modern humans originated in Africa.
Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
Cradle of Humankind
Fertile Crescent
Garden of the Hesperides
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