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What are South Africa's three capital cities?
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What are South Africa's three capital cities?
Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative) and Bloemfontein (judicial).
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How many provinces does South Africa have?
Nine.
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How many official languages are there?
Eleven.
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When were the first democratic elections?
27 April 1994, now celebrated as Freedom Day.
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Who became President in 1994?
Nelson Mandela.
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What was apartheid?
A system of legal racial segregation enforced from 1948 until the early 1990s.
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Where was Mandela imprisoned for 18 years?
Robben Island, off Cape Town.
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What happened at Sharpeville on 21 March 1960?
Police shot protesters who were demonstrating against the pass laws.
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What is remembered on 16 June?
The Soweto student uprising of 1976, now Youth Day.
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Who founded a Dutch supply station at the Cape in 1652?
Jan van Riebeeck.
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What was the Great Trek?
The movement of Boer farmers into the interior in the 1830s and 1840s.
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When was the Union of South Africa formed?
1910.
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When did gold lead to the founding of Johannesburg?
Gold was found on the Witwatersrand in 1886.
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What are the two houses of Parliament?
The National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.
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Which court is the highest on constitutional matters?
The Constitutional Court, in Johannesburg.
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Which mountain overlooks Cape Town?
Table Mountain.
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What is the longest river in South Africa?
The Orange River.
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Which mountain range forms the eastern escarpment?
The Drakensberg.
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Which cold current flows up the west coast and which warm one flows down the east?
The Benguela (cold) and the Agulhas (warm).
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What is the highest point in South Africa?
Mafadi, about 3,450 metres, in the Drakensberg.
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Which is the famous game reserve in the north-east?
Kruger National Park.
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What is the currency?
The rand, made up of 100 cents.
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Which Nobel Peace Prize winner is the former archbishop who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
Desmond Tutu.
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What does Ubuntu mean?
A person is a person through other people; humanity shown to others.
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Which two South Africans won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Nadine Gordimer (1991) and J. M. Coetzee (2003).

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