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South Africa

  • Population: 45.3 million (UN, 2005)
  • Capital: Pretoria
  • Area: 1.22 million sq km (470,693 sq miles)
  • Major languages: 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu
  • Major religion: Christianity, Islam, indigenous beliefs
  • Life expectancy: 47 years (men), 51 years (women)
  • Monetary unit: 1 Rand = 100 cents
  • Sunday Times - South Africa’s oldest Sunday newspaper

Road Junky has 4 South Africa articles. Scroll down to view.


Law and Disorder in Johannesburg with Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux takes a BBC crew to Johannesburg to spend some time with the security teams there who have taken over the jobs that the South African police just ...

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The Train Surfers of Soweto, South Africa

For kids growing up in Soweto, an inner city of Johannesberg, pursuits like rock climbing or bunjee jumping are out of their budgets. Instead they make do getting kicks by ...

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My African Nemesis

A study abroad and a committed effort to avoiding reality landed me in the middle of nowhere Africa at the age of twenty. Immediately after finishing my studies in Cape ...

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