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Republic of South Africa
National name: Republic of South Africa
President: Thabo Mbeki (1999)
Area: 471,440 sq. mi. (1,219,912 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 43,426,386 (average annual rate of natural increase: 1.31%); birth rate: 25.9/1000; infant mortality rate: 52.0/1000; density per sq. mi.: 92
Administrative capital: Pretoria
Legislative capital: Cape Town
Judicial capital: Bloemfontein. No decision has been made to relocate the seat of government. South Africa is demarcated into nine provinces, consisting of the Gauteng, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, North West, KwaZulu/Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, and Free State. Each province has its own capital
Largest metropolitan areas (1995): Cape Peninsula, 2,350,157; Johannesburg 1,916,063; East Rand, 1,378,792; Durban/Pinetown, 1,137,378; Pretoria, 1,080,187
Monetary unit: Rand
Languages: English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho, Swati, Xitsonga, Setswana, Tshivenda, Xhosa and Zulu are the official languages of the interim period
Ethnicity/race: black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%
Religions: Christian; Hindu; Islam
Literacy rate: 76%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $290.6 billion; $6,800 per capita. Real growth rate: 0.3%. Inflation: 9%. Unemployment: v. Arable land: 10%. Agriculture: corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; beef, poultry, mutton, wool, dairy products. Labor force: 15 million economically active (1997); by occupation: services, 35%, agriculture, 30%, industry, 20%, mining, 9%, other, 6%. Industry: mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textile, iron and steel, chemical, fertilizer, foodstuffs. Natural resources: gold, diamonds, platinum, uranium, coal, iron ore, phosphates, manganese. Exports: $28.7 billion (f.o.b., 1998): gold, other minerals and metals, food, chemicals. Imports: $27.2 billion (f.o.b., 1998): machinery, transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, textiles, scientific instruments. Major trading partners: U.K., Italy, Japan, U.S., Germany.
