Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Knowledge of our Country and It's heritage

In south-Africa we have alot of different cultures and reliongs. With this there is off course 11 different languages spoken through out south-africa. in this piece im gonna give you a little bit more information on our heart land South-Africa.

The 11 Languages:
English
Afrikaans
IsiXhosa
Isizulu
Isindebele
Sepedi
Sesotho
SeSwati
Setswana
Xitsonga
Tsiwenda

Our 9 Provinces and there Capital's

Limpopo - Polokwane
North West - Mafikeng
Freestate - Bloemfontein
Guateng - Johannesburg
Eastern Cape - Bisho
Western Cape - Cape Town
North Cape - Kimberley
KwaZulu Natal - Pietersmaritzburg
Mpumalanga - Nelspruit

Neighbour Provinces and there capitals

Angola - Loswanda
Namibie - Windhoek
Botswana - Garborane
Zimbabwe - Harare
Tanzanie - Dodoma
Zambie - Lusaka
Mosambique - Mapoto
Malawi - Lilangwe

Nasionale Simboles

Tree - RealYellow Wood
Flower - King Protea
Animal - Springbok
Bird - Blue Crane
Fish - Galjon

Vacation days

21 March - Human Rights Day
1 May - Workers day
16 June - Youth day
9 August - Womans day
24 September - Heritage day

Big 5

Buffalo
Leopard
Elephant
Lion
White Rhino

Little 5

Leopard tortoise
Rhino Beatle
Buffalo Weaver
Elaphant Shrew
Ant Lion

President : Jacob Zuma
VisePresident : Mr Maklknti

Mandela was President of South-Africa in 1994 till 1997

Cultural and Natural Heritage

  • Natural: Things thats been formed natural for example Mapungubwe
  • Cultural: When a culture believes in something thats past on to Generations for example; The venda people with the Domba dance and Phythn god.
8 World wonders in South-Africa

  1. Cape Floral Kingdom
  2. Cradle of human land
  3. Great St Lucia wetlands park
  4. Mapungubwe Cultural landscape
  5. Drakensberg Park
  6. Richtersveld National Park
  7. Roben Island
  8. Vredefort Dome

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