SOUTH AFRICA

A WEBQUEST

1 .What are the colours of the South African flag?
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2.This flower is the symbol of South Africa. What is its name?

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This flower is the king protea

3.What is (are) the capital (s) of South Africa?

-Pretoria

-Bloemfontein

-Cape Town

4.What is the South African currency?
South Africa's unit of currency is the rand

5.Write down the names of the four main languages.
South Africa had only four official languages, namely English, Afrikaans, Ndebele,
Northern Sotho.

6-South Africa is the biggest producer of which metals and minerals?
Chief exports include corn, diamonds, fruits, gold, metals and minerals, sugar, and wool

7.Give the names of these animals that we can find in Kruger Park:

_Springboks
_Chettah
_Ostrich

What are the big five? elephant, lion, rhino, leopard and buffalo

.The South African Rugby team is called from the name of which animal?
The South Africa rugby team is called from the Springboks

8.Who is this man?
Nelson Mandela

.Why is he famous? Click here

He served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of
Umkhonto we Sizwe.

Mandela served 27 years in prison

-What do the letters ANC stand for?
The African National Congress (ANC).

9.What is apartheid?
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning “apart” or “separate,” and one of the first pieces of apartheid legislation was the Group Areas Act of 1950, which segregated living spaces, concentrating whites in the cities and forcing people of color into rural areas or the urban fringes
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