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• Population: 52 million people live in South Africa
• Capital: Pretoria (executive)
Bloemfontein (judicial)
Cape Town (legislative)
• Name: Republic of South Africa,
• Government: Democracy
• Languages: 11 official languages: isiZulu, Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa, siSwati, Sesotho, Xitsonga, Sepedi, isiNdebele, Setswana, Tshivenda
• Religion: mainly Christians and Muslims, but also Jews and other faiths.
• Currency: 1 South African Rand (ZAR)= 100 cent
• History: South Africa was led by Apartheid leaders until Nelson Mandela came free from prison and became the first democratically elected leader in South Africa in 1994.
• National Symbols: Protea, Springbok and others
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