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Learn about challenges of elephant conservation as faced in South Africa's Kruger...
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An introduction to South Africa, with a focus on its geography and history.
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A history of diamond mining in South Africa.
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Overview of Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo province, South Africa.
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Three decades after apartheid, South Africa is still considered the most unequal...
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Learn about Robben Island, home to the South African maximum security prison in which...
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Overview of the vuvuzela, a horn that is popular with South African football (soccer)...
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“I have the feeling that I have been made answerable for the future of the people...
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“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
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Learn about the Australopithecus genus.
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Learn more about how countries decide where to locate their capital cities.
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Images
Part of the Great Escarpment, the Drakensberg mountains separate the extensive high...
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Tall aloe plants grow in Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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A herd of zebras grazing in one of South Africa's many wildlife reserves.
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A hippopotamus rearing its head above water in Kruger National Park, South Africa....
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A map of the territories known as Bantustans (also known as Black homelands or Black...
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A vineyard near Cape Town, South Africa. The wine regions in Western Cape province...
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Traditional artwork adorns a Ndebele house, South Africa.
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South African dramatist Athol Fugard sitting between actors John Kani (left) and...
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Entrance to the former prison on Robben Island, South Africa.
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A replica of the Robben Island cell in which Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, at the...
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Robben Island in Table Bay, north of Cape Town, South Africa, was once home to a...
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South Africa's Francois Steyn (center) running with the ball during the 2007 Rugby...
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South African Pres. Nelson Mandela (left) congratulating South African rugby team...
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Illustration depicting the defeat of Leander Starr Jameson and his troops at Doornkop...
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Boer troops lining up in battle against the British during the South African War...
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The Boer siege of Ladysmith (now uMnambithi), 1900, during the South African War...
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Robben Island prison, South Africa, which operated as a maximum-security prison,...
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Uprising in Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 1976. Demonstrators protested state...
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Nelson Mandela visiting a school in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1993.
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Nelson Mandela voting in South Africa's historic 1994 election, the first time in...
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South African politician Thabo Mbeki, who served as president of the African National...
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The president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, speaking at the Sports for Peace Gala,...
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The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking in Pretoria, South Africa,...
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Sign at a beach in Durban, South Africa, in 1989, during the apartheid era. It restricted...
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Flag of South Africa (1928–94).
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