Some Interesting Facts About South Africa
South Africa is a country with diverse and vibrant culture. South Africa is among the fast-growing countries in Africa and the world at large.
The country is known politically by their first President, Nelson Mandela who was destined for twenty-seven years but survived and led his country for independence on 16th March 1994 when he was elected as their first President.
One attribute that make South Africa different from other countries is that it is the only county in Africa that possess diverse rich culture ranging from Linguistic, ethnic groups and tourism.
Below are some interesting facts about South Africa
1. The Only Country with Three Capital Cities:
South Africa is the only country in the world with capital cities.The capital cities are Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfontein.
Cape Town is a legislative assembly capital, Bloemfontein, Judicial capital and Pretoria as administrative capital.
What is means that every organ of government in the country has their respectives cities that they operate. The Parliament House is located at Bloemfontein whiles the office and residence of the president is in Pretoria.
2. First African country to host FIFA World Cup.
In 2010, the Republic of South Africa made a history as the first African country to host thirty-two(32) countries in their regions for the most anticipated Football tournament on the planet organize by Federation of International Football Association (FIFA).
When the bid was given to the country, many European countries doubt the decisions taken by FIFA.
They believed that Africans do not have well-equipped facilities to host such prestigious football festival.
But South Africa did a marvelous work to host one of the best FIFA World Cup tournament on the continent.
The final match between Spain and Holland was held in Johannesburg.
3. Country with 11 official Languages:
Language is the medium used to send and receive information. In the territories of South Africa, there are eleven Languages that have been accepted as the official languages that could be used in every public gatherings.
The Languages includes; Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho,Swazi, Tsonga,Tswana, Venda,Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans and English Language. Above all, the most commonly used Language in the country is Zulu.
4. Home of Human Cradle:
Africa is known as the “cradle of humankind”, the ‘Rainbow Nation’ is specifically the origin of human. Archaeological evidence indicates that the oldest natural fossil which is more than two (2) million years discovered in the country. This simply implies that truly South Africa is home of human origination.
5. The first successful heart transplant was held in South Africa:
On 3rd December, 1967 Dr. Christiaan Bannard and his team did the first successful heart transplant in Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital.
They receive a Nobel Prize Award in 1979 for their achievements.
Tourism:
Tourism is one of the factors that put South Africa on the world Map. It among the fasted tourism destination. Kruger National Park is one of the biggest National Park in the country.
The park was created in 1898 to protect animals from hunting.
Kruger National Park
Leopard, Buffaloes, Rhinos and Lions can be found in Kruger National Park.
Indeed, South Africa is a country to visit once in a lifetime.
