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fun facts
100

This ocean is on South Africa’s coast.

 What is the Atlantic Ocean?

100

This system of institutionalized racial segregation governed South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.

What is apartheid?

100

Millions are infected with this STI

What is HIV/AIDS

100

This prize was awarded to Nelson Mandela in 1993 for his efforts to end apartheid.

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

100

This South African billionaire founded SpaceX and Tesla, making him one of the richest people in the world.

Who is Elon Musk?

200

South Africa is famous for this large mountain overlooking Cape Town.

What is Table Mounain?

200

These areas were set aside for Black South Africans to live under apartheid.

What are townships?

200

This political party, which has been in power since the end of apartheid in 1994, remains the dominant force in South African politics.

What is the African National Congress (ANC)?

200

This city, home to Nelson Mandela’s former house in Soweto, is the largest in South Africa.

What is Johannesburg.

200

South Africa is a large producer of a valuable metal.

Gold

300

Name atleast ⅔ of the 3 capital cities.

Johannesburg, pretoria and bloemfontein.

300

This group was created to find the truth about crimes committed during apartheid.

What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

300

How many official languages are there in south africa to day

12

300

The year Nelson mandela was elected president.

What is 1994

300

South Africa is famous for producing this precious gemstone, often clear or sparkling.

What is a diamond?

400

This group of Dutch settlers, also called Boers, moved inland to escape British rule.

Who are the Afrikaners?

400

In 1960, police opened fire on peaceful protesters in this township, killing 69 people and sparking international outrage.

What is the Sharpeville Massacre?

400

This man was a leader of the Zulu people.

Who is Shaka Zulu?

400

Before Nelson Mandela, this president helped negotiate South Africa’s transition to democracy with Nelson Mandela.

Who is F.W. de Klerk?

500

This law stopped white and Black South Africans from marrying each other.

What is the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act?

500

South Africa’s rugby team is called this.

What are the Springboks?

500

What is Nelson Mandela’s birth name

Rolihlahla