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Extension to Geography and History
South Africa
The official name is Republic of south Africa. Its capital is Pretoria. The climate is cold during winter and hot and humid during summer.
Language
Number of speakers*
% of total
Afrikaans
5 983 420
13.35%
English
3 673 206
8.2%
IsiNdebele
711 825
1.59%
IsiXhosa
7 907 149
17.64%
IsiZulu
10 677 315
23.82%
Sesotho sa Leboa
4 208 974
9.39%
Sesotho
3 555 192
7.93%
Setswana
3 677 010
8.2%
SiSwati
1 194 433
2.66%
Tshivenda
1 021 761
2.28%
Xitsonga
1 992 201
4.44%
Other
217 291
0.48%
TOTAL
44 819 777
100.00%
South Africa has eleven official languages:
Timeline of the History of South Africa
25000 BC
The Khoikhoi and the San are native tribes. Men were hunters and women collected plants.
1488
* Spoken as a home language. Source: Census 2001
A reconstruction of Khoikhoi life from the South African Museum.
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Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese navigator circumnavigates the southern tip of Africa, naming it The Cape of Good Hope.
1497
Vasco de Gama as a successor of Dias is sent on an expedition to sail the coast of South Africa as a sea route to India. They land in South Africa on November 8th.
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