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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
South Africa has cultivated a burgeoning astronomy community. It hosts the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. South Africa is currently building the Karoo Array Telescope as a pathfinder for the $20 billion Square Kilometer Array project to be built in South Africa and Australia.
Tourists taking in the view of Cape Town and Table Mountain from Robben Island. South Africa is a tourist destination with the tourist industry accounting for 2.34% of GDP [1] in 2019 followed by a sharp drop in 2020 to 0.81% of GDP [1] due to lack of travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
During that period, the unemployment rate was 37.6% among Black South Africans and 7.9% among white South Africans, according to the statistics agency. It was 23.3% among South Africans of mixed race.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk “on issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa,” the presidency announced on Tuesday. “In the process, the ...
The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid but has angered critics. South Africa does have a history of ...
Sport in South Africa is still largely seen (in the words of a former member of Women and Sport South Africa) as "the domain of men". In 1997, one writer described "massive gender inequalities in the sporting structures of the country, and a strong association between sport and masculinity" .
The first census in South Africa in 1911 showed that whites made up 22% of the population. This declined to 16% in 1980, [31] 8.9% in 2011 and 7.65% in 2022. [32]: 21 Coloured South Africans replaced Whites as the largest minority group around 2010. Maps of ethnoracial groups of South Africa