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Since 1924
Area
1,219,090 sq. km.
Population
60,442,647 (estimated 2024).
Capital
Legislative: Cape Town; administrative: Pretoria; judicial: Bloemfontein.
Currency
Rand (ZAR).
Language(s)
11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu (English is generally the language of official governmental business).
Main commercial and industrial center
Johannesburg.
Imports
Machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, scientific instruments, foodstuffs.
Exports
Gold, diamonds, platinum, other metals and minerals, machinery and equipment.
South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors. The 1990s brought an end to apartheid politically and ushered in black majority rule as of April 27, 1994. South Africa has since struggled to address apartheid-era imbalances in decent housing, education, health care and the increase in crime and corruption.
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