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  2. Culture of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. Almost all South Africans speak English to some degree of proficiency, in addition to their native language, with English acting as a lingua franca in commerce, education, and government. [ 1][ 2] South Africa has eleven official languages, but other indigenous languages are spoken by ...

  3. History of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    History of South Africa. The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. [ 1] In 1999, UNESCO designated the region the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. [ 2] South Africa's first known inhabitants have been referred to as the Khoisan, the Khwe and the San.

  4. Cradle of Humankind - Wikipedia

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    2015. Maropeng Visitor Centre. The Cradle of Humankind [1] [2] [3] is a paleoanthropological site that is located about 50 km (31 mi) northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, [4] the site is home to the largest known concentration of human ancestral remains anywhere in ...

  5. South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa ( RSA ), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [ 18][ 19][ 20] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and ...

  6. Early history of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Prehistory of South Africa (and, inseparably, the wider region of Southern Africa) lasts from the Middle Stone Age until the 17th century. Southern Africa was first reached by Homo sapiens before 130,000 years ago, possibly before 260,000 years ago. [1] The region remained in the Late Stone Age until the first traces of pastoralism ...

  7. South African cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Trotters and beans —from the Cape, made from boiled pig's or sheep's trotters and onions and beans. Ugali —maize porridge in South Africa, traditional porridge/polenta and a staple food of the African peoples. Umngqusho —a dish made from white maize and sugar beans, a staple food for the Xhosa people.

  8. Music of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Amapiano. Amapiano, is a subgenre of house and kwaito music, thought to have emerged in the mid-2010s. The genre combines deep house, jazz, and lounge music. Amapiano stands out for its incorporation of high-pitched piano melodies reminiscent of kwaito, characterized by South African basslines and a slower tempo.

  9. South African art - Wikipedia

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    Culture of South Africa. South African art is the visual art produced by the people inhabiting the territory occupied by the modern country of South Africa. The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave. Archaeologists have discovered two sets of art kits thought to be 100,000 years old at a cave in South Africa.

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