South Africa is located at the southern tip of Africa with borders on Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland. The document outlines key topics about South Africa including its independence from Portugal, England, and the Netherlands in 1910. It describes South Africa's flag, coat of arms, and national anthem. It also provides details on the capital cities of Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town as well as the largest city of Johannesburg. Additionally, it notes the ethnic groups, languages, religions, sports, climate, geography, nature, landmarks, government, and economy of South Africa.

1. SOUTH AFRICA
By: Diogo Oliveira
9ºG Nº4

2. TOPICS THAT IM GONNA SPEAK ABOUT
• Birth/Independence
• Flag an other symbols
• Location and borders
• Capital and main cities
• Races, language and religion
• Some Sports
• Climate and geographical features
• Nature
• Landmarks and monuments
• Government
• Economy
• Some Curiosities
South Africa

3. BIRTH AND
INDEPENDENCE
Bartolomeu Dias
Portugal England Nederland
1488 1910
Nelson
Mandela

4. FLAG AND OTHER SIMBOLS
SOUTH AFRICA
FLAG
COAT OF ARMS
English translation of Xhosa and Zulu
version:
Lord bless Africa
May her glory be lifted high
Hear our petitions
Lord bless us, your children
English translation of Sesotho version:
Lord we ask You to protect our nation
Intervene and end all conflicts
Protect us, protect our nation
Protect South Africa, South Africa
English translation of Afrikaans version:
Out of the blue of our heavens
Out of the depths of our seas
Over our everlasting mountains
Where the echoing crags resound
English Version:
Sounds the call to come together,
And united we shall stand,
Let us live and strive for freedom,
In South Africa our land.
ANTHEM
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
(God Bless Africa)

5. LOCATION AND BORDERS

6. CAPITAL AND MAIN CITIES
Pretoria
(Executive Capital)
Bloemfontein
(Judicial Capital)
Palace of
Justice
Vierde raadsaal
(Fourth Meeting
Room)

7. CONTINUATION...
Cape Town
(Legislative Capital)
Parliament Johannesburg
(Biggest City and 2n
most visited city)

8. ETHNIC
76.4% 9.1%
8.9%
2.5%
(Asian Black
People)

9. LANGUAGUES
• Afrikaans
• English
• Ndebele
• Northen Sotho
• Sotho
• Swazi
• Tsonga
• Tswana
• Venda
• Xhosa
• Zulu

10. RELIGION

11. SPORT
S
Bafana Bafana (The Boys, The
Boys)

12. CLIMATE AND GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES
Cape Peninsula Robben Island

13. NATUR
E
GemsbokCape Buffalo Cape Fymbos

14. LANDMARKS AND MONUMENTS
Al voortreker (Pretoria) Afrikaans Language
Monument (Cape)
1820 Settler National
Monument
(Grahamstown)

15. GOVERNMENT
Deputy president (Cyril
Ramaphosa)
President (Jacob
Zuma)

16. ECONOMY