Monday, September 14, 2009

Culture

The South African flag contains a y coloured green and outlined with a thinner white y. At the top of the y there's a black and yellow colour, red and blue colours take up the rest of the flag. The flag was adopted on April 27th 1994. The black in the flag stands for Indian people, the red stands for the blood shed in order to get freedom. The white stands for racial segregation, the green and blue stand for land and oceans. Also, the yellow stands for the sun.



In South Africa there are many different languages, for example Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. The most spoken of these languages is Zulu with a total of 10,677,000 people speaking it, which is 23.8 % of the entire country, the least spoken of these languages in South Africa is Ndebele and is spoken by 712,000 people which is 1.6 % of the population.

The main religon in South Africa is Christianity which takes up 79.8 % of the country, also Islam, Hinduism and Judaism are a key part of the the countries variety of religons.

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