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This picture of Johannesburg
is from Encarta.

The country that we have been studying is South Africa.

* The capital city of South Africa is Cape Town. (*see corrections in email below)

* The largest city is Port Elizabeth. (*see corrections in email below)

The population of South Africa is forty-one million people.

* South African languages are Afrikaans and English. (*see corrections in email below)

* Here is an email from our friends in South Africa :

Cape Town is known as the Mother City. Pretoria and Cape Town share the seat of government. Parliament is in Cape Town.

Johannesburg is the biggest city.

There are 11 official languages. English, Afrikaans and 9 languages that the black people speak. In the Cape where I live the majority of the black people speak Xhosa.

Our children learn to speak Xhosa in school from Grade 1. They also learn Afrikaans.


This picture of Cape Town
comes from Encarta.

Afrikaans is very like Dutch as the first colonists who came here were from the Netherlands. Later the British came and they introduced English.

Love from
Mrs Margaret Dugmore
Micklefield School, Cape Town.

From Encarta we heard South African music.

From Internet we learned that kids in South Africa like roller blading.

 

Bibliography :

Encarta
World Book
The Times Atlas of the World.

Research by Alexandria, TJ & TOM F. 3S

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