{"id":661,"date":"2024-01-26T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/paris\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:28:53","slug":"south-africa-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/paris\/south-africa-in-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"661\" class=\"elementor elementor-661\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-element elementor-element-28ecebb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"28ecebb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3aef6e4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3aef6e4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ddb604f elementor-widget elementor-widget-hfe-breadcrumbs-widget\" data-id=\"ddb604f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-widget.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><ul class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs hfe-breadcrumbs-show-home\"><li class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-item hfe-breadcrumbs-first\"><span class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-home-icon\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/paris\"><span class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-text\">Home<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8419c3e elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8419c3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"color: #daa652;\">Official Name<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>Republic of South Africa<\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #daa652;\">Population<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>64 million<\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #daa652;\">Urbanisation<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a067%<\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #daa652;\">Area<\/span>:<\/strong> 1,2 million km\u00b2<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Political system: <\/strong><\/span>Constitutional Democracy; partly unitary and partly federal. The power is shared between the central Government and the nine Provinces. The Parliament has two Chambers (National Assembly and National Council of Provinces), with elections every five years. Each of the nine Provinces also has its own Provincial Government and Chamber.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Capital:<\/strong><\/span> Pretoria (the administrative capital, where the Central Government, the Ministries and the Embassies are located); Cape Town (the legislative capital, where the Parliament is located); and Bloemfontein (the judicial capital, where the Supreme Court is located).<\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #daa652;\">The nine Provinces:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West Province.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Time Zone:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>GMT + 2<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Telephone indicator:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>+ 27<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Distances:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Cape Town-Johannesburg (1 400 km), Johannesburg-Durban (600 km), Port-Elizabeth-Bloemfontein (700km).<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Currency:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Rand (ZAR) 1 Rand is divided into 100 cents.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Growth Rate: <\/strong><\/span>0,6% (2023)<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Chief exports:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Gold, minerals, diamonds, metals and derivatives, agro foodstuffs.<\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #daa652;\">Chief imports:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured products, chemicals, oil.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Languages:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>11 official languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda, Ndebele, Xitsonga and English.\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>Communication language:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>English<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #daa652;\"><strong>National Day:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>27 April, in celebration of the first democratic elections held in South Africa (27 April 1994).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Official Name:\u00a0Republic of South Africa Population:\u00a064 million Urbanisation:\u00a067% Area: 1,2 million km\u00b2 Political system: Constitutional Democracy; partly unitary and partly federal. 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