The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of the African continent. It borders the countries of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Lesotho is an enclave entirely surrounded by South African territory.

South Africa has experienced a significantly different evolution from other nations in Africa arising primarily from two facts; immigration from Europe reached levels not experienced in other African communities and a level of mineralogical wealth that made the country extremely important to Western interests, particularly during the Cold War. As a result of the former, South Africa is a very racially diverse nation. It has the largest population of people of Coloured (i.e., mixed racial background), White, and Indian communities in Africa. Black South Africans account for almost 80% of the population.

Racial strife between the white minority and the black majority has played a large part in the country's history and politics, culminating in apartheid, which was instituted in 1948 by the National Party, although segregation existed prior to that date. The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed or abolished by the National Party in 1990 after a long and sometimes violent struggle (including economic sanctions from the international community) by the Black majority as well as some White, Coloured, and Indian South Africans.

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Optimism and the vuvuzela will get South Africa through 2010 - Times LIVE http://ow.ly/16fUkO
SA_2010_Cup (2010 World Cup SA) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:11:59 -0000
Optimism and the vuvuzela will get South Africa through 2010 - Times LIVE http://ow.ly/16fUkO
California Eco-Home Design Comes to South Africa | MasterTP.Com: New Eco-Estate Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.. http://bit.ly/4NksvN
nevkarn (Nevada Karyan) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:11:42 -0000
California Eco-Home Design Comes to South Africa | MasterTP.Com: New Eco-Estate Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.. http://bit.ly/4NksvN
Graeme Swann: I got drunk, punched and dropped on my first tour of South Africa - Daily Mail http://ff.im/-dHClp
sendflowers2day (Ken Bolt) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:09:25 -0000
Graeme Swann: I got drunk, punched and dropped on my first tour of South Africa - Daily Mail http://ff.im/-dHClp
"The Rag Blog: South Africa's Dennis Brutus : A Poet for H..." http://tinyurl.com/ybzows8 #books #authors #writers #news
VegasBookFest (Vegas Book Festival) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:09:23 -0000
"The Rag Blog: South Africa's Dennis Brutus : A Poet for H..." http://tinyurl.com/ybzows8 #books #authors #writers #news
Graeme Swann: I got drunk, punched and dropped on my first tour of South Africa http://bit.ly/4Yw9A4
Ur_WebInfoNews (Ur Web Info News) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:07:19 -0000
Graeme Swann: I got drunk, punched and dropped on my first tour of South Africa http://bit.ly/4Yw9A4
Tickets are bought, and the Africa trip is official. Exactly five months from today, I'm on a plane for South Africa and the World Cup.
eunrose (eunrose) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:04:54 -0000
Tickets are bought, and the Africa trip is official. Exactly five months from today, I'm on a plane for South Africa and the World Cup.

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