Kanepi Gymnasium
Form 8
Ketlin Linder
 Capital
 Geography
 History
 People
 Wildlife
 Culture
 Climate
 Flag
 Cape
town is a city in South Africa.
 Table Mountain National Park defines the
city.
 South
Africa occupies the southern tip of
Africa, its long coastline stretching more
than 2 500km from the desert border with
Namibia on the Atlantic coast, southwards
around the tip of Africa, then north to the
border with subtropical Mozambique on
the Indian Ocean.
 Tens
of thousands of Dutch and British
settlers came here in the 19th century to
look for cold and diamonds.
 Today we have some of the world`s richest
gold mines and diamond fields.
 There
are some fiev million white people
living in South Africa. But the majority of
use are black Africans.
 White South Africans differ significantly
from other white African groups, because
they have developed nationhood, as in the
case of the Afrikaners, who established a
distinct language, culture and faith in
Africa.
 Each
year millions of tourists visit South
Africa.
 Most of them come to see the Big Five-the
elephants, lions, rhinos, leopards and
buffalo.
 We have several wildlife reserves here.
 The largest and most famos in the Kruger
National Park.
 The
culture of South Africa is known for its
ethnic and cultural diversity.
 The South African majority still has a
substantial number of rural inhabitants who
lead largely impoverished lives.
 It is among these people, however, that
cultural traditions survive most strongly; as
Africans have become increasingly urbanized
and Westernised, aspects of traditional culture
have declined.
 Urban Africans usually speak English or
Afrikaans in addition to their native tongue.
 Our
climate is very pleasant: the summers
are never too hot and the winters are
never too cold.
 The
flag has horizontal bands of red (on
the top) and blue (on the bottom), of equal
width, separated by a central green band
which splits into a horizontal "Y" shape,
the arms of which end at the corners of the
hoist side (and follow the flag's diagonals).
The Y embraces a black isosceles triangle
from which the arms are separated by
narrow yellow bands; the red and blue
bands are separated from the green band
and its arms by narrow white stripes.