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Title: South Africa and Apartheid


1
South Africa and Apartheid
  • A country of contrasts

Simonetta Gatto Istituto Comprensivo di Casella
(GE)
2
The Republic of South Africa is in the south of
the African continent.
3
The borders
  • Northwest Namibia
  • North Botswana
  • Northeast Zimbabwe and Mozambique
  • East Swaziland.
  • Southwest Atlantic Ocean
  • Southeast Indian Ocean
  • Enclave Lesotho

4
Enclaves
  • What is an enclave?
  • It is a country within the territory of another
  • How many enclaves are there in the world?
  • Three Lesotho, the Vatican and the Republic of
    San Marino.

5
Physical map
  • South Africa is located at the southern tip of
    Africa.
  • It has a long coastline of about 2,500 km
    (1,553 miles) and two oceans Atlantic and
    Indian.
  • The interior is a vast and flat land.
  • The north is dry because of the desert.
  • The mountain ranges are the Drakensberg
    Mountains and the Roggeveld Mountains.

6
Political map
  • Constitutional parliamentary republic
  • 9 provinces
  • Capital cities Pretoria (executive),
    Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Town (legislative)
  • Indipendence from the UK in 1910
  • Population 49 million people (70 black, 9
    coloured, 9 white, 3 Asian)
  • Languages South African English and Africaans

7
The Head of State
  • The President of the Republic is Mr Jacob Zuma.
  • He was born in 1942 and was elected by Parliament
    after the victory of his party in general
    election in 2009.
  • His party is the African national Congress (ANC)

8
What was Apartheid?
  • It was a system of government from 1948 to 1990.
  • This Afrikaans word means separation the whites
    were separated from the black Africans and other
    minorities.
  • The white minority ruled the country and the
    black majority did not have any rights.

9
How did the world react to Apartheid?
  • A lot of countries boycotted South Africa during
    Apartheid they refused to buy its products.
  • Film and pop stars refused to perform in South
    Africa

10
The world of sports against Apartheid
  • South Africa was absent from international sport
    events for most of the apartheid era due to
    sanctions
  • A lot of teams and champions refused to compete
    either in South Africa or against South Africa

11
The first black president Nelson Mandela
  • He was the most important antiapartheid leader
  • He spent 27 years in prison for his ideas
  • In 1994 he became the first black president after
    the first free elections in South Africa for the
    first time the black people could vote in their
    own country.

12
Economy one fifth of the African products are
from South Africa
  • The most important products are
  • Gold
  • Diamonds
  • Wine the eighth producer in the world
  • Tourism

13
Tourists come to South Africa to see the game
parks
  • The big five
  • Elephant
  • Buffalo
  • Lion
  • Leopard
  • Rhyno

14
National sports
15
Other popular sports
  • Rugby
  • Running
  • Netball
  • Surfing
  • Boxing
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