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 The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed or abolished by the National Party in 1990 after a long and sometimes violent struggle (including economic sanctions from the international community) by the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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RT @octavianasrCNN: While some can barely manage one, South Africa's Zuma weds third wife (his 5th total) http://bit.ly/7aNh4s
Lebanese_Writer (Lebanese Writer) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:15:41 -0000
RT @octavianasrCNN: While some can barely manage one, South Africa's Zuma weds third wife (his 5th total) http://bit.ly/7aNh4s
While some can barely manage one, South Africa's Zuma weds third wife (his 5th total) http://bit.ly/7aNh4s (via @octavianasrCNN)
lalubr (Ana Luiza Farias) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:15:17 -0000
While some can barely manage one, South Africa's Zuma weds third wife (his 5th total) http://bit.ly/7aNh4s (via @octavianasrCNN)
RT @timstorey: check out tim storey's new video from his tour in south africa... thankyou for helping him change lives... its... http:// ...
toadi21970 (toadi21970) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:14:27 -0000
RT @timstorey: check out tim storey's new video from his tour in south africa... thankyou for helping him change lives... its... http:// ...
While some can barely manage one, South Africa's Zuma weds third wife (his 5th total) http://bit.ly/7aNh4s
octavianasrCNN (Octavia Nasr ) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:13:58 -0000
While some can barely manage one, South Africa's Zuma weds third wife (his 5th total) http://bit.ly/7aNh4s
check out tim storey's new video from his tour in south africa... thankyou for helping him change lives... its... http://bit.ly/7IaqjE
timstorey (Tim Storey) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:13:53 -0000
check out tim storey's new video from his tour in south africa... thankyou for helping him change lives... its... http://bit.ly/7IaqjE
@ict_cfr Nah, Mexico has an easy Group. Mexico has beaten Uruguay on several occasions before. Mexico will easily beat a weak South Africa.
ANDaniloTheRef (Danilo Lenilson) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:11:34 -0000
@ict_cfr Nah, Mexico has an easy Group. Mexico has beaten Uruguay on several occasions before. Mexico will easily beat a weak South Africa.

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