INTRODUCTION

I wanted to write about Africa and more precisely South Africa because it's a country which always has fascinated me. My attraction for South Africa is probably prompted by the fact that it's a wild country, indomitable with its dangers but especially its riches.
In this report I'll give you a synthetic presentation of this country about the positive and negative points then my personal point of view.

South Africa is the most southern country of the African continent and is bounded by the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. It's divided into nine provinces:

* Eastern Cape (Bhisho) * Free State (Bloemfontein) * Gauteng (Johannesburg) * KwaZulu-Natal(Pietermaritzburg) * Limpopo (Polokwane) * Mpumalanga((Nelspruit) * Northern Cape (Kimberley) * North West (Mafikeng) * Western Cape (Cape town)

The three capitals are:

* Pretoria (executive) * National flag
National flag
Coat of arms
Coat of arms
Bloemfontein (judicial) * Cape Town (legislative)

Johannesburg is often considered, wrongly, as the capital of South Africa. In reality it's one of the biggest cities and the most populated.
The most spoken language are Isi-Zulu, Afrikaans (derived from Dutch) and English. South Africa, also called the "Rainbow Nation", achieved the status of a republic in 1961. The current President is Jacob ZUMA (since 9 May 2009).

NEGATIVE POINTS

History: apartheid

Apartheid is a social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. "Apartheid" is an Afrikaans term which the meaning is similar to "apartness".

The segregation always existed but was only officialised (legislatively) in 1948. These laws had as goal to strengthen the authority of the whites on the economic and social system in South Africa.

In 1950, the government decided that all South Africans be racially classified into one of