apresentacao oral

1. South
Africa

2. Summary
• 1 - Location
• 1.1 capitals
• 2- Languages
• 3- History
• 3.1- Colonization
• 3.2- Apartheid and recent History
• 4- Culture
• 4.1- Flag
• 4.2- Religions

3. 1- Location
• - South Africa is located in the African
Continent. It is surrounded by 6
countries. To the North by Namibia,
Botswana and Zimbabwe; On the East
side by Mozambique and Swaziland. In
the middle of the country we can find
another country called Lesotho.

5. 2- Bloemfontein
(judicial)

7. 2- Languages
• South African society ( known as the
rainbow nation) it is quite
multicultural,since it has many
different cultures, languages and
religions, which is reflected in its
constitution that recognizes 11 official
languages.
• Two of them have European
origins: Afrikaans coming from the
Dutch colonization, and English from
the British being the main language
used in public and in the commercial
life.

8. 3- History
South Africa has suffered colonization from several european
countries, from the Portuguese till the French. But the biggest
influence came from the Dutch and the British.

9. 3.1-Colonization
When Europeans arrived in the
country there were already a
dominant group of people
whose language was the Bantu,
who had been living there for
one thousand years, being the
two major groups the Xhosa and
Zulu peoples.

10. The Portuguese Influence
• We can say the country was discovered by
the portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias
in 1488 who was at the time exploring the
unknown trade route to the Far East via the
African continent.
• Later in 1497 the Portuguese Vasco da
Gama succeed to go round the Cape of
Good Hope, continuing its way to India,
opening a new era in History by creating a
new connection between Europe and Asia;

11. The Dutch Influence
• In 1967 two ships of the Dutch East India
Company got shipwrecked in South Africa
for several months. Having its
mariners survived by the generosity of its
inhabitants they returned back to Holand
saying that the new country would be a great
place to serve as warehouse for the passing
ships.
• Later, on behalf of their company they
created a station in what would in the future
would be Cape Town city, where they settled
and started mixing with some indigenous
groups.

12. The British
Influence
• The British ocupation first happened at
the beggining of the 19th century, but it
was in the second half of this century
that the British interest grew due to the
discover of Diamond mines in the
country.
• At the end of this century , after facing
dutch and french colonizers in
the boers war, the British start to
control the main part of the region.
• The segregation of black people from
the white ones was notarious since the
19th century but it was in 1913 with the
Natives Land Act that an official law
came out restricting rights of the black
people;

13. 3.2- Apartheid and Recent History

14. The Apartheid
• In 1948 with the National Party in power
the segregation of black people became
official under Bristh and Dutch colonial
rules, limitating throughout the time , more
and more the rights of black people, these
ones the majority in the country ( 80%);
• Several discriminatory rules were created,
including :
 the prohibition of marriage between white
and black people ( 1949);
 The creation of ghetos in certain areas of
the city only for black people;

15. The interdiction of black people
in using some public facilities
such as drinking fountains and
public bathrooms ( 1951)
and the creation of a different
education sistem for black
children.
 In 1955 the Freedom Charter,by
the Congress Alliance, demanded
a non-racial society and an end to
discrimination.

16. • In 1961 the Union of South Africa conquers the
independence from England, forming the African
South Republic
• . During the 60's the UN declares to be against the
apartheid and it was also during this time that
Nelson Mandela was sent to prison, being arrested
for 27 years. He was released in 1990 under the
protection of the government of Frederik Willem de
Klerk. Once released he conducted the process that
ended the Apartheid having won the Nobel Price in
1993.
• The apartheid came to an end in 27th April 1994
with free elections. Nelson Mandela was elected
President of the South African Republic.

17. 4- Culture
• There is not a single South African
culture because of its ethnic diversity.
This can be not only noticed in the
different population but also in the
country's different kinds of
gastronomy, sports and languages.
There are, however, some unifying
traits common to the different people.

18. 4.1 Flag
• The flag of South Africa was
designed in March 1994 and
adopted on 27 April 1994, at the
beginning of South Africa's 1994
election, to replace the flag that
had been used since 1928. The new
national flag, was chosen to
represent the country's new
democracy after the end
of apartheid.

19. 4.2-Religions
• South Africa is characterized by a
great diversity and religious
miscegenation. In the country we
can find some traditional African
religions, Hindu and Islamism.
• However, about 70% of the South
African population follows
some Christian religion, coming
from the European colonization.

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