South Africa Map

South Africa is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa. The country has received more European immigrants than any other country in Africa and has the highest population of European, Indian and mixed race. Racial and ethnic conflict has always been a big part of the history and politics of the country. An important factor in the development of the country's rich mineral resources available to the country. The country's economy is the largest and most advanced on the continent with modern infrastructure across the country.

South Africa Map

South Africa is a republic at the southern tip of Africa. It borders in the north of Namibia (967 km border), Botswana (1840 km border) and Zimbabwe (225 km border), and in the northeast of Mozambique (491 km border) and Swaziland (430 km border). Lesotho (909 km border) is an enclave within the borders of South Africa.

Racial conflict between the white minority and the black majority, the country's history and politics dominated. The theme has peaked with the apartheid regime between 1948 and the nineteen-nineties. After the National Party came to power in 1948, several systems have been introduced based on their own racial development. Laws that are based purely on its own racial development, has been abolished since 1990 after a long and sometimes violent struggle against apartheid in which blacks took the lead. White, colored and Indian South Africans have participated and foreign press was a major factor in the eventual dismantling of apartheid.

The dramatic change in the political system, however, in the end in a miraculous way relatively peacefully achieved. South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa (and the rest of the developing world), who have not undergone a coup. The multi-party talks, which the new South Africa was put in place, leading to the development of the constitutions with strong protection of human rights. Unfortunately protect the Constitution of South Africa Afrikaner on the field of the labor area and the private sector, because the constitution allows the government of Black Economic Empowerment and affirmative action could be brought against the Afrikaner minority. This means that Africans can not get government contracts unless they divide their businesses and give them a 51 percent stake to a black businessman.

Today it is often referred to South Africa as the Rainbow Nation - a term originally devised by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later was expanded by then President Nelson Mandela - as a metaphor for the country's newfound multicultural diversity of the cessation of separation which is caused by the apartheid ideology. South Africa is the first and so far only, country that developed nuclear weapons and then voluntarily destroy its entire nuclear weapons program.