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About South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of the African continent. It borders Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho, an independent enclave surrounded by South African territory. South Africa is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and is widely regarded as the most socially and economically developed country on the continent.

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South Africa has experienced a different history from other nations in Africa as a result of early immigration from Europe and the strategic importance of the Cape Sea Route. European immigration started shortly after the Dutch East India Company founded a station at (what was to become) Cape Town in 1652. The closure of the Suez Canal during the Six Day War exemplifies its significance. The country's relatively developed infrastructure made its mineral wealth available and important to Western interests, particularly throughout the late nineteenth century; then, with international competition and rivalry during the Cold War. South Africa is an ethnically diverse nation with the largest white, Indian, and racially-mixed communities in Africa. Black South Africans, who speak nine officially-recognised languages and many more dialects, account for slightly less than 80% of the population.

Racial strife between the white minority and the black majority has played a large part in the country's history and politics, culminating in apartheid, which was instituted in 1948 by the National Party (although segregation existed prior to that date). The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed or abolished by the National Party in 1990 after a long and sometimes violent struggle (including economic sanctions from the international community) by the Black majority as well as many White, Coloured, and Indian South Africans.

A number of philosophies and ideologies have developed in South Africa including ubuntu (the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity); Gandhi's notion of "passive resistance" (satyagraha), developed while he lived in South Africa; and also Jan Smuts' holism.

Regular elections have been held for almost a century; however, the majority of South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994. The economy of South Africa is the largest and best developed on the continent, with modern infrastructure common throughout the country.

South Africa is often referred to as the "Rainbow Nation" a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later adopted by then-President Nelson Mandela. Mandela used the term "Rainbow Nation" as a metaphor to describe the country's newly-developing multicultural diversity in the wake of segregationist apartheid ideology. The country's socially progressive policies are rare in Africa. By 2007, the country had joined Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Canada in legalising same-sex marriage."

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  1. “ The World Cup is the most explosive and widely viewed sporting event on earth. Over 700 million people watched the final game of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Allvoices is proud to enable the world to express their spirit and passion for the World Cup by reporting news from the games in South Africa. Allvoices is about news and diverse opinions, and fans can unite and celebrate through shared perspectives and a mutual love for the sport. ”
    In Allvoices Launches 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa News Reporting Contest

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    Explore Article Technology Review (Aug 25 2010)

    ...edhi. Based at Microsoft Research India's Bangalore lab, she has conducted field research in India, South Africa, and the Philippines to design text-free interfaces that could help illiterate and semiliterate peo... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Atlanta   Harvard Medical School   Texas

  3. Groups A and C Getting Most World Cup Attention

    Explore Article Data Mining (Jun 20 2010)

    ...rence Groups A and C Getting Most World Cup Attention: Comments Martin Berg Group A is the one with South Africa, C the one with the US and UK, not surprising then that if you do an English language query, they w... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   South Africa

  4. Allvoices Launches 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa News Reporting Contest

    Explore Article news.yahoo.com (Jun 15 2010)

    Allvoices Launches 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa News Reporting Contest ...ting on 2010 World Cup Competition, Teams, Athletes and Fans Allvoices Launches 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa News Reporting Contest PRWeb * (Submit) Buzz up! * Send + Email + IM * Share + Facebook + Twitter +... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Vocus   South Africa   Germany

  5. World Cup Team Talk

    Explore Article BBC - Homepage (Jun 11 2010) Machine Translation

    World Cup Team Talk ...by click Google's automatic machine translation. ...and more » World Cup Team Talk As the host team South Africa and Mexico kicked-off the first World Cup game, people across the globe were joining in our multi-l... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Farsi   South Africa   Germany

  6. Football talk

    Explore Article BBC - Homepage (Jun 9 2010)

    Football talk ...d will be live online from 1315 GMT for the opening ceremony, and then run through the first game - South Africa against Mexico. It's your chance - as part of World Cup Have Your Say - to talk about your hopes fo... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   South Africa   Mexico   BBC

  7. System and method for detecting, collecting, analyzing, and communicating event related information

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (May 25 2010) Machine Translation

    ...rensic process, as evidenced by the activities of Aum Shynrikyo, the Rajnessh cult, Japan Unit 731, South Africa's ProjectCoast, and the immense former Soviet Union biological weapons program. Coupling near-real ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Argentina   Kosovo   Australia

  8. African Computer Scientists Recognized

    Explore Article EurekAlert! (Dec 7 2009)

    ... systems and multicast technology for education and community development * Tshilidzi Marwala from South Africa, who is studying the application of computational intelligence to engineering, finance,and medicine... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Andrew Herbert   Trieste   Imperial College London

  9. News round-up: 6th November 2009

    Explore Article Digital marketing news (Nov 9 2009)

    News round-up: 6th November 2009 ...STA Travel may extend the mobile advertising campaign to other territories in the future, including South Africa and the Nordics. www.statravel.co.uk www.admob.com Brittany Ferries revamps search with GOSS inter... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Digital   South Africa   Google

  10. Telecom Minister Raja releases Software Tools & Fonts for 6 Indian ...

    Explore Article www.equitybulls.com (Sep 8 2009) Machine Translation

    ...specialist Crisis Communications Unit Netapp leadS India Network Attached Storage Market in CY 2008 South Africa gears up for 2010 FIFA World Cup Sonalika develops world's cleanest hydro three wheeler vehicle Dir... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Department of Information Technology   South Africa   Hyderabad

  11. SpinVox: The Inside Story

    Explore Article The Register (Jul 29 2009) Machine Translation

    ... a dozen, providing technical and cultural-specific training to new agents. Several centres were in South Africa, but also Mauritius, South America and most famously in SpinVox folklore, Pakistan. For many agents... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Vodafone   Pakistan   SpinVox

  12. Abidjan Blog Camps Launches 'Blog Your Holidays' Campaign

    Explore Article Rising Voices (Jul 12 2009) Machine Translation

    ...ing article in Africa2.0 blog describing the lack of videos uploaded from African countries (except South Africa, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria). There are some videos on Africa in Video sharing sites like YouTube b... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Abidjan   South Africa   HiperBarrio HiperBarrio

  13. Slow translation affecting product uptake in local languages

    Explore Article COMPUTERWORLD AFRICA (Jul 9 2009) Machine Translation

    ..., Lingala (Democratic Republic of Congo), Hausa, Yeruba (Nigeria), Zulu, Xhosa, SeSotho, Africaans (South Africa), Shona (Zimbabwe), Malagasy (Madagascar), and Akan (Ghana and Ivory Coast), said Julie Taylor, com... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zimbabwe   Hausa   South Africa

  14. Slow translation affecting product uptake in local languages

    Explore Article IDG News Service (Jul 8 2009) Machine Translation

    ..., Lingala (Democratic Republic of Congo), Hausa, Yeruba (Nigeria), Zulu, Xhosa, SeSotho, Africaans (South Africa), Shona (Zimbabwe), Malagasy (Madagascar), and Akan (Ghana and Ivory Coast), said Julie Taylor, com... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zimbabwe   Hausa   South Africa

  15. OntoDas - a tool for facilitating the construction of complex queries to the Gene Ontology.

    Explore Article NCBI HomePage (Feb 7 2009) Semantic

    ... Hermjakob H. Central Node, National Bioinformatics Network, Golf Park, Raapenberg Road, Cape Town, South Africa. koneill@bccrc.ca BACKGROUND: Ontologies such as the Gene Ontology can enable the construction of c... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hermjakob   Cape Town   BMC Bioinformatics

  16. Natural language processing a cornerstone of DLP

    Explore Article ITWeb (Nov 24 2008)

    ...mpanies of all sizes. A subsidiary of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, NGS has established itself as South Africa's authority in securing organisations' information from threats from within. The company's services... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   South Africa   Johannesburg

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