South Africa

Question 1

What is the population of South Africa?

Answer 1

59M

Question 2

What is the rate of population growth?

Answer 2

1.0

Question 3

What is the GNI per capita?

Answer 3

6,530$.

Question 4

What is the life expectancy?

Answer 4

65.3

Question 5

What is the adolescent fertility rate?

Answer 5

67/1000

Question 6

What is the infant mortality rate?

Answer 6

33/1000

Question 7

What is the GDP?

Answer 7

419B$

Question 8

What is the HDI?

Answer 8

0.71

Question 9

What place does SA rank in African economies?

Answer 9

3rd.

Question 10

What are the % splits of energy sources?

Answer 10

65% coal, 18% crude oil and 11% renewable.

Question 11

What % of SA electricity is produced by Eskom, the state-owned utility.

Answer 11

95%.

Question 12

What place is SA in the global rankings of greenhouse gas emitters?

Answer 12

14th.

Question 13

Where are the largest coal deposits?

Answer 13

Ecca Coalfields.
1/3 of coal reserves in the Southern Hemisphere and covers 2/3 of South Africa.

Question 14

What are the negative impacts of the Ecca minefields?

Answer 14

Combustion wastes, coal mine wastes and coal land fires. This damages wildlife and spreads illness and disease.

Question 15

What happened in the Emalaheni plant in 2006?

Answer 15

60km away from the plant, wastes leaked into the water supply and killed thousands of fish, crocodiles and freshwater turtles, aswell as poising potable water.

Question 16

How many people lack basic water services in sub-saharan Africa and why?

Answer 16

387M, before the transition to democracies in 1994 the development of the country’s water resources were not a focus, considering the most in need were the black majority.

Question 17

In 1994, how many people in SA did not have clean water?

Answer 17

14M, 35% of the population.

Question 18

From 1994 to 2004, how many more people gained access to clean water?

Answer 18

13.4M

Question 19

How many households had access to clean water in 2018?

Answer 19

95%.

Question 20

How many households had clean running water within?

Answer 20

64%

Question 21

How much of all the water infrastructure in SA is not functional?

Answer 21

1/3rd.

Question 22

How much money was needed to counteract water shortage in SA?

Answer 22

R898 billion.

Question 23

How far short is SA from being able to afford counteracting water shortage?

Answer 23

R333 billion.

Question 24

How much of South Africa’s land area is farmland?

Answer 24

80%, over 96 million hectares.

Question 25

How much of the 96 million hectares of farmland was classified as permanent meadows/pastures?

Answer 25

87%

Question 26

What % of South Africa's GDP is agricultural in nature?

Answer 26

2.4%.

Question 27

What are the two largest crops in SA?

Answer 27

Sugar and maize (in the top 10 maize producers globally).

Question 28

How many chickens are being farmed in SA, and how much income does animals/animal products bring in?

Answer 28

179M, and they bring in R152 billion.

Question 29

How much were agricultural exports?

Answer 29

9.5 billion USD.

Question 30

What % of South Africans believe that corruption is the number 1 problem facing the country?

Answer 30

9.1%, the second highest behind unemployment.

Question 31

What does corruption in SA encompass?

Answer 31

The improper use of public resources for public ends, including bribery and improper favouritism.

Question 32

What corruption score does SA have?

Answer 32

43/100, ranking it 71st in the world.

Question 33

SA has a robust anti-corruption framework, but why is corruption an issue?

Answer 33

Laws are inadequately enforced due to corrupt police and accountability in public sectors is nonexistent.

Question 34

What % of South Africans believe that you risk retaliation if you report corruption?

Answer 34

76%.

Question 35

What was Former President Jacob Zuma accused of?

Answer 35

Spending state funds, delegating contracts based on nepotism, and business with familial connections benefitting from association.

Question 36

In Nov 2020, how many SA political officials were arrested on corruption charges?

Answer 36

134

Question 37

Following Zuma's arrest in July 2021, what was the reaction in Guateng?

Answer 37

Mobs looted shopping malls and indusrtial parks, looting nearly 1000 shops as an overwhelmed police force was ineffective.

Question 38

What happened in Durban following Zuma's arrest?

Answer 38

The mobs ravaged large areas, forcing the country's largest oil refinery to shut down, with roads to its harbour (Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest) closed, disrupting fuel and food deliveries into the city.

Question 39

What did critics say about the violence following Zuma's arrest?

Answer 39

It was the deadliest period of unrest since the end of Apartheid 1994.

Question 40

What was the military reaction to the looting following Zuma's arrest?

Answer 40

They would dispatch 25,000 more troops as the initial 2500 were insufficient. They were still outnumbered.

Question 41

What was Zuma's arrest seen as?

Answer 41

An extraordinary victory for the rule of law, but the former-president's supporters used inflammatory rhetoric, suggesting the verdict was meant to divide Zulu people.

Question 42

What was the reaction in KwaZulu-Natal to Zuma's arrest?

Answer 42

Pro-Zuma gunmen barricaded a highway and torched 35 trucks.