The Republic of South Africa , as the name suggests, is located at the south most tip of the continent of African. It shares its borders with other countries like, Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , Mozambique and Swaziland . There is also an independent nation, Lesotho , which is entirely enclosed by the South African territory.

South Africa is one of the most ethnically varied countries on the African continent. It is home to the largest population of European descent people and Indians outside Asia . Thus, you can see the majority of colored people of mixed European and African communities in Africa . Racial and cultural discords between the majority of black people and the minority of white have been a great factor in the development of the country's history and politics.

South Africa is counted among the regional powers, which are most constant and laissez-faire democracies in Africa . It is a constitutional democracy with the government of three-tiered system and a sovereign judiciary, which operates under the parliamentary system. The economy of South Africa is also among the largest and developed having the most modern infrastructure that is common throughout the country.

The most interesting aspect about South Africa is that there are 11 main official languages, namely Afrikaans, Zulu, English, Swati, Xhosa, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Tswana , Venda and Tsonga. In the list, it is ranked on second position after India .

South Africa offers the tourists some of the beautiful ancient archeological sites. The traces of age-old history are found as widespread fossil remnants at the caves of Kromdraai, Sterkfontein and Makapansgat. This is the clear evidence that various australopithecines existed here even three million years ago.

After apartheid, the new provinces were made to give the local governments more resources to allocate uniformly in the smaller areas. The new provinces are: Eastern Cape , Free State , Gauteng , KwaZulu-Natal , Mpumalanga , Limpopo , Northern Cape , North West and Western Cape .