South Africa

Animals

Reptiles

• The reptiles are one of the largest groups of animals in South Africa.

•  The reptiles include animals from turtles to crocodiles.

• There are more than 200 species of reptiles in South Africa.

The South African iconic reptiles:  

• The nile crocodile

• The black mamba

• The leopard tortoise

• The brown house snake

• The boomslang

Penguin

• The African penguin, is a species of penguin confined to southern  African waters.

• Where to find them? – Ten islands and two mainland sites support the African penguin.

• The African penguin is a very popular attraction in South Africa and many tourists in South Africa want to see them in their special beaches and islands. 

Famous People

Abba Eban 

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 2 February 1915 to Jewish parents. Eban moved to the United Kingdom at an early age

What made him famous was his political activities and his brilliant and exceptional expression. He was considered the “diplomat number one” of the State of Israel.

Participated in the design of UN Security Council Resolution 242, which ensured that there was no peace without a withdrawal .

Represented Israel in the form of Resolution 338. Following this decision, Ibn headed the Israeli delegation to the Geneva Conference – the first peace conference.

Kevin Anderson

• Kevin Anderson was born on 18.5.1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

• He started playing tennis at the age of 6.

• Today he is a professional tennis player and ranked 7th in the world.

• His highest achievement is playing in two Grand Slams finals.

• He is 2.03m high and he is one of the highest tennis players.

• His height gives him an  advantage on other tennis players. 

• Today he lives in Florida with his wife and family, but still represents South Africa in the tennis tournaments.

Culture

LANGUEGES

• At least thirty-five languages indigenous to South Africa are spoken in the Republic.

• Ten of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, SiSwati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu and Afrikaans.

• The eleventh official language is South African English, which is the primary factor language used in parliamentary and state discourse.

• South African Sign Language has legal recognition but is not an official language.

•  Most South Africans can speak more than one language.

• The most common language spoken as a first language by South Africans is Zulu 23%, followed by Xhosa 16%, and Afrikaans 14%.

Golf

• South Africa is a golfer’s paradise, with exceptional weather and magnificent golf courses located in areas of pristine beauty.

• Golf in South Africa has a long and illustrious history and South Africa is one of the great golfing nations. Golf is easily the best individual sports event that South Africans participate.

• South africa has a golf championship called “African Open Championship”.

• The South African Open Championship is one of the oldest national open golf championships in the world.

• According to the South African Golf Association, there are more than 450 affiliated golf clubs serving more than 125,000 golfers.

THE APARTHEID

The Coloureds

The Coloured community is predominantly descended from numerous interracial sexual unions, primarily between Western European men and Khoisan or mixed-race women in the Cape Colony from the 17th century onwards

• Coloureds are to be mostly found in the western part of South Africa. In Cape Town, they form 45.4% of the total population.

• They had Lower status from the white people but higher from the black people

CRIMES

• A total of 2.01 million crimes were recorded in 2019.

• South africa  has a notably high rate of murders, assaults, rapes and other violent crimes, compared to most countries

• Around 57 people are murdered in South Africa every day.

Sexual violence

• The rate of sexual violence in South Africa is among the highest in the world.

• During 2015-2016, there were 51,895 crimes of a sexual nature reported to the South African Police Service.

• While women’s groups in South Africa estimate that a woman is raped every 26 seconds, the South African police estimates that a woman is raped every 36 seconds

South Africa

Jewish community

• The Jews of South Africa are now the largest Jewish community in the continent of Africa. This is a largely Ashkenazi community.

• The Jewish community has a large part in the country.  For example they take an active part in managing the cities,  they built galleries and libraries for local art and many more things.

• The languages  that are spoken in the Jewish community of South Africa are Hebrew, English and Yiddish.

• Most of the Jews are residents in : Johannesburg and Capetown.

Cape Town

The population in Cape Town declined in a half in the last years. I decided to seek why ,and i found that Cape Town is one of the most dangerous town  in the world.  (71,500 Rape cases in one year).   

“Crime is a really big issue for us in the province. Our murder rate is unbelievably high and last year we had 3,700 murders in our province,” said Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde.

Between November 2018 and May 2019, over 2000 murders were recorded in  the city.