Jay+south+Africa

== =**South Africa**= **First I'm going to start off on 2 facts about the tough country known as south africa.1 that there is 11 official languages that are spoken in south africa but the one that is spoken the most is IsiZulu.Another fact is about their education and that they have 13 grades instead of 12 like the U.S**

**Next I'm going to talk about South Africa's geography(climate,naturalhazards).South Africa is a fairly dry country that doesn't get that much rain but gets enough to make their plants look beautiful .South Africa's natural hazards are prolonged droughts and also a volcano that last erupted in 2004**

**In South Africa there are diffrent people with things than America.** **black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5%.** **IsiZulu (official) 23.82%, IsiXhosa (official) 17.64%, Afrikaans (official) 13.35%, Sepedi (offcial) 9.39%, English (official) 8.2%, Setswana (official) 8.2%, Sesotho (official) 7.93%, Xitsonga (official) 4.44%, siSwati (official) 2.66%, Tshivenda (official) 2.28%, isiNdebele (official) 1.59%, other 0.5%.** **Protestant 36.6% (Zionist Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%), Catholic 7.1%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1%.Most of South Africa's kids over 15 can read and write.**

**South Africa's government is complicated but also unique in some ways.The type of Government South Africa has isa republic.Thier capital is Pretoria. Their independence was on May 31 1910.Their sufferge was 18 years of age.**





The unemployment rate in south Africa is not bad at all it is about 20%. The population below poverty line is half which is about 50% which is not that bad.South Africa's exports cost at a high value at 94.2 billion dollars.What they export is gold,platnium, silver,diamonds,and other machinery materials.Now the cost for imports cost 98.86 billion dollars.What would be imported is scientific stuff,machinery,food,ect.South africas import partiners are china,germany,US,UK,and saudi arabia.

One popular song in south Africa is the ice skating chimp.Another popular song is Love is a noise.Next song that is popular is Closer by neyo.Then the next song is I kissed a girl by katy perry.Last song is Your the one.