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south africa
History
1480 - Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias is the first European to travel the southern tip of Africa.
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama lands on the Natal coast
1652 - Jan van Riebeeck, représentant la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales, fonde la colonie du Cap à Table Bay.
culture
Contained within South Africa's borders are Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Tswana, Ndebele, Khoisan, Hindu, Muslim, and Afrikaner people to name but a few
South Africa has been famously referred to as the rainbow nation because it is made up of so many diverse cultures and religions.
GEOGRAPHY
occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than 2,850 kilometresfrom the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.
sport
Association football is the most popular sport in almost all African countries.
African club teams compete in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup.
art
South African art has always taken on the unique flavour of the country, from the 4 000-year-old cave paintings of the San Bushmen
the San Bushmen to the homegrown conceptual art movement that sprang up as apartheid came to an end in the 1990s.
