SA project oren beck, yoav blumkin and guy pettel

MAMMALS

• Mammals are a class of animals, numbering about 5,400 species of animals. The most distinctive feature of mammals is the existence of mammary glands, through which the mother feeds her children.

• in South Africa, there are more than 290 species of mammals.

penguin in South Africa

• 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 on their special beaches and islands.

• According to 2010 the number is 55,000.

• Lifespan – 10 to 27 years in the wild, and up to 30 years in captivity.

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971. he was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa when he was 17 he moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University.

in may 2002 musk founded SpaceX. SpaceX designs manufacture and launch advanced rockets and spacecraft. the company’s goal is to enable living on other plants.

in 2008 the company launched its first rocket “FALCON 1 “  Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit.

today Elon’s net worth is 40 billion USD

Nelson Mandela

• was born in 1918’ in Mavezo South Africa, he was the leader of the movement that canceled the Apartheid – the white minority that ruled in South Africa on the black majority, without giving the black people any rights of being equal.

• Mandela is famous for his long fight for freedom to the black people, which he did un violently protest which failed.

• As a result of this failure, he decided to act with force and to organize the violent protests. That led to his arrest and to his trial. his punishment was to serve 27 years in prison.   

• After his punishment, he continued the fight.

• In his activity, in 1993 he won Nobel Prize for peace.

• In 1994 he became the first black president of South Africa, until 1998. 

• Nelson Mandela passed away in 2013.

Golf

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

• 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 in.

• 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.

LANGUAGES

• 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%.

Knysna

• Knysna means  “place of wood”.
• Knysna is a town with 85,708 inhabitants as of 2019
• The Knysna Lagoon opens between two massive cliffs, known as The Heads. These stand tall, acting as watchmen over the pristine loveliness of the lagoon.
• The town is a popular destination for both tourists and senior citizens, Recently, the town has also become a preferred destination among golfers, as the town boasts several world-class golf courses
• Knysna Speed Festival, currently known as The “Jaguar Simola Hillclimb”. It is a three-day event, with Classic Car Friday reserved for cars built prior to 1980. 
• The Knysna Elephant Park (established in 1994) was the first facility in South Africa to house and care for orphaned African elephants.
• Much of Knysna was devastated by fires that spiraled out of control in the wake of strong winds caused by the 2017 Cape Storm. Approximately 10,000 people were forced to evacuate.

Geography

• South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world. 
• South Africa has a long coastline and along two oceans (the South Atlantic and the Indian).
• The Orange River is South Africa’s largest river. Rising in the Drakensberg Mountains.
• South Africa has borders with 6 countries, Namibia, Botswana and even a country inside the area of South Africa that calls Lasota.
• South Africa is a country with lots of contrasts, ski resorts in on the side and in desert 50 degrees.

Traditional Food

• South African cuisine includes cookery practiced by the indigenous people of Africa.

• The cuisine is not rated as a gourmet cuisine in this country and as such, it is very much a home cuisine.

The colonial influences 

• The colonial influences include that of white European people of mostly Dutch, German, French and British.

• The latter includes the cuisine of the “Cape Malay” people, which has many characteristics of Indonesia.

• Sometimes it called “ The Rainbow Cuisine” because of its diversity. 

CRIMES IN SOUTH AFRICA

• 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.

• 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 estimate that a woman is raped every 36 seconds