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Quiz
- What is the largest city in South Africa?
- What was Swaziland renamed in 2018?
- What name is given to South Africans descended from Dutch settlers?
- Name the longest river in South Africa?
- Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison. In which year was he released?
- One of the largest game reserves in Africa, which national park became South Africa's first in 1926?
- What is the main mountain range of Southern Africa?
- What is the official currency of South Africa?
- Which city is the capital and the largest city of the Free State?
- What is the name of the flat-topped mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town?
- Name the surgeon at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1967 who successful performed the first human heart transplant?
- Describing the country's multicultural diversity, South Africa is often referred to as the what nation?
- What is the national animal of South Africa?
- Which city was formerly named Port Natal due to its position as South Africa's chief seaport?
- Which hilltop was the site of an important battle in the Boer War from 23 to 24 January 1900?
- What was the previous name of Gqeberha, the most populous city and seaport in the Eastern Cape province?
- Zululand was formally annexed by the British in 1887 and made a part of which former colony?
- What is the Internet country code top-level domain for South Africa?
- The most southern tip of Africa is known as cape what?
- Which upmarket suburb of Cape Town is known for both its cricket ground and rugby union stadium?
- What is the smallest of South Africa’s nine provinces but also the most populated?
- What number did Francois Pienaar have on his back when he led South Africa to its first Rugby World Cup win?
- Who was Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996?
- Who became the first South African to win an acting Oscar?
- Which city, the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province, has historical significance due to its diamond mining past?
- Named by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, what's the former name of the Cape of Good Hope?
- Can you name the second black president of South Africa?
- Which 'township' established in the 1930s in the City of Johannesburg became an epicentre of political campaigns aimed at overthrowing apartheid?
- Which country is landlocked as an enclave in South Africa?
- What is South Africa's population: (a) 40 million, (b) 50 million, or (c) 60 million?
Answers
- Johannesburg
- Eswatini
- Afrikaners
- The Orange River
- 1990
- Kruger National Park
- Drakensberg
- Rand
- Bloemfontein, or Bloem
- Table Mountain
- Christiaan Barnard
- Rainbow Nation
- Springbok
- Durban
- Spion Kop
- Port Elizabeth
- Natal
- Za
- Cape Agulhas
- Newlands
- Gauteng
- Six
- Desmond Tutu
- Charlize Theron
- Kimberley
- Cape of Storms
- Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
- Soweto
- Lesotho
- (c) 60 million