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SOUTH AFRICA AT A GLANCE
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Head of State:
President
Thabo Mbeki
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Size:
1,2 million square
kilometres.
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Economic growth:
4.2% 1st
Quarter (2006) and 4.9% 2nd Quarter (2006)
Annual 4.9% (2005)
Annual 4.5% (2004)
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Key economic sectors:
Mining, services and
transport, energy, manufacturing, tourism, agriculture.
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Tourist arrivals:
8 million (2005)
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Population:
45,45 million (2003).
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Official languages:
English,
isiZulu, isiXhosa, isiNdebele
isiSwati,
Afrikaans, Sepedi, Sesotho,
Setswana, Tshivenda and Xitsonga.
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Literacy:
86% (1996).
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Urban population:
53,7% (Census 1996).
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Type of Government:
Constitutional
multi-party democracy
with an
independent judiciary.
The country is divided into nine provinces.
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Major cities:
Johanesburg,
Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban,
Bloemfontein,
Port Elizabeth, East London, Kimberley.
Three capitals: Administrative (Pretoria), Legislative
(Cape Town) and Judicial (Bloemfontein)
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Currency:
South African Rand ZAR
100 cents equals one Rand.
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Transport infrastructure:
Excellent, 7
200 km of tarred
national
roads, 30 000 km of railway lines,
11 international-standard airports.
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