History Of South Africa
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History of south africa. South africa s remoteness it lies thousands of miles distant from major african cities such as lagos and cairo and more than 6 000 miles 10 000 km away from most of europe north america and eastern asia where its major trading partners are located helped reinforce the official system of apartheid for a large part of the 20th century. Anc infighting which has grown in recent years came to a head in september 2008 when president thabo mbeki resigned and kgalema motlanthe the party s general secretary succeeded him as interim president. Executive pretoria judicial bloemfontein and legislative cape town the largest city is johannesburg.
The prehistory and history of south africa span nearly the entire known existence of human beings and their ancestors some three million years or more and include the wandering of small bands of hominins through the savanna the inception of herding and farming as ways of. Civil and state flag civil and state ensign. By ad 500 bantu speaking peoples had arrived from west africa s niger delta.
Republic of south africa flag. South africa since then has struggled to address apartheid era imbalances in decent housing education and health care. Competing colonial european powers began settling here in small numbers from the 17th century mostly in the cape.
It replaced the flag that had been used since 1928 and was chosen to represent multiculturalism and ethnic diversity in the country s new post apartheid democratic society. History south africa s history extends back to around 40 000 bc when the san people first settled southern africa.
