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RSA Flashcards

1
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Motto

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!ke e: !xarra IIke = Unity in Diversity

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Capitals

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Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (Legislative)

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Largest city

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Johannesburg

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4
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Ethnic divisions

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79.5 % Black 9% White 9% Coloured 2.5% Asian

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Type of gvt

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Constitutional parliamentary republic

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6
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President

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Jacob Zuma

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Deputy President

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Kgalema Motlanthe

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National Assembly speaker

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Max Sisulu

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Chief Justice

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Mogoeng Mogoeng

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Currency

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Rand (ZAR)

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Population

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~50 million

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Parliament

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Upper House: National Council of Provinces. Lower House: National Assembly

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Independence from UK

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Union: 31 May 1910. Statute of Westminster: 11/12/1931. Republic: 31/05/1961

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14
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Oldest Archeological and human fossil sites

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Cradle of Humankind

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1487

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Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias became first European to reach southern Africa. Dec. 4th landed at Walfisch Bay

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1652

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Jan van Riebeeck established a refreshment station in the Cape of Good Hope, to become Cape Town for the Dutch East India Company

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Cape Frontier Wars

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Dutch settlers expanding east met migrating Xhosa people in the Fish River region. Wars fought over land and livestock.

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Anglo-Boer War

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Boers and British fought over control of SA’s mineral wealth, i.e. diamonds in the 19th C

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Boers

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original Dutch, Flemish, German, and French settlers

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1806

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Cape Town became a British colony

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1795

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British take over Cape of Good Hope area to prevent it from becoming French

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1803

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British returned Cape Town to the Dutch, but DEIC soon declared bankruptcy

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1807

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Slave Trade Act by Brit Parliament

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1833

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Slavery Abolition Act

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1867

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Discovery of Diamonds

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1884

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discovery of gold

27
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Mineral Revolution

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discovery of diamonds and gold increased econ. growth and immigration. Intensified European-SAn subjugation of indigenous people

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First Boer war

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1880-1881 guerrilla warfare, boer republics resisted British encroachments

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Second Boer War

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1899-1902 British returned in greater numbers anmd new strategy, were successful despite attrition.

30
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Apartheid

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Legally institutionalized segregation, three racial classes, white, coloured, and black.

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1994

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First universal elections, African National Congress won by an overwhelming majority and has been in power ever since.

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