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AFRICA OBSERVATORY - ISSUE 16
23 Aug - 09 Sep 2019
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT
We're here with you with the issue 16 of the African Observatory.
First of all, we commemorate the former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, who died on September 6, and express our condolences to all the people who lost their lives in armed attacks in South Africa.
We are very sorry for the armed attacks against the immigrants in South Africa that we have made headline this week and we hope that these events will end as soon as possible. We are aware that the high unemployment rates in the country have triggered these attacks to a great extent and as a result immigrants are victims. Solving the problem of unemployment all over the world will enable many issues to settle. For this reason, the development of trade relations, thus triggering production is the most basic solution of the unemployment problem. We hope that the commercial solutions between Africa and Turkey, in particular, continue to apply unabated for resolving such problems. As TAFAC, we are working hard to improve our commercial relations.
I also congratulate the August 30 Victory Day, which was the 97th anniversary of last week, with my best wishes. I would like to thank all our soldiers, commanders and Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who saved this country by fighting with their hearts.
Sincerely,
President of TAFAC
Abdulaziz Unal
DWELLING ON AFRICA: COUNTRY REPORT
DETAILED GENERAL COUNTRY REPORT ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA
Dwelling on Africa: Country Report “South Africa”
South Africa is the southernmost African country is bordered by Botswana, Mozambique,
Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe and it surrounds the small Kingdom of Lesotho.
The country covers an area of 1,221,000 km², compared it is larger than four times the size of Italy, or slightly less than twice the size of the U.S. state of Texas.
South Africa has a population of 55.9 million people (official estimate 2016), the country's
administrative capital is Pretoria; legislative capital is Cape Town and the judicial capital
is Bloemfontein (Mangaung), largest city is Johannesburg. SA has 11 official languages: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. Most spoken first languages are Zulu (isiZulu - 23%), Xhosa (isiXhosa - 16.0%), and Afrikaans (13.4%).
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