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Johannesburg 3.2 million people Called “ Joburg ” Economic and financial capital of South Africa

Johannesburg 3.2 million people Called “ Joburg ” Economic and financial capital of South Africa It is Africa’s second largest global city, after Cairo. Combination of First World and Third World. Langebaan Footprints World’s oldest trace of Homo Sapiens 117,000 years old.

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Johannesburg 3.2 million people Called “ Joburg ” Economic and financial capital of South Africa

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  1. Johannesburg 3.2 million people Called “Joburg” Economic and financial capital of South Africa It is Africa’s second largest global city, after Cairo.

  2. Combination of First World and Third World

  3. Langebaan Footprints World’s oldest trace of Homo Sapiens 117,000 years old

  4. The Ndebele of the Limpopo Province

  5. Aparthied Known as a trading station for the Dutch explorers who used the route to travel to India. Dutch encounters the Khoikhoi

  6. 1600s-1800 Dutch Settlers arrive from the Dutch East India Company. Set up a trading post in Cape Town. 1820 – British Settlers begin arriving and push the natives westward.

  7. Dutch Boer Trekkers Boer = Farmer in Afrikan

  8. LIST OF THE MOST POPULAR WORDS • Eish! – hey! • lekker - Enjoyable • howzit - How is it? • yebo - Yes • boet, bru, china or ou - Brother or man (equivalent to dude or bro) • koppie - A small hill (can also mean a cup) • robot - Traffic light • tannie - Respectful term for an older woman • tinkle - phone call • nownow - sooner than just now! (from Afrikaans "nou-nou", pronounced no-no) • braai - barbecue. • cheers - we use this for saying good-bye, as well as saying thank you and for the occasional toast. • heita - Hello • sharp - (usually pronounced quickly) OK • sure-sure more pronounced like sho-sho - Correct, Agreement, Thank you OFICIAL LANGUAGES English (23.8%) isiXhosa (17.6%) Afrikaans (18%) SepedI (13.3%) isiZulu (8,2%) Setswana (8.2%) Sesotho (7.9%) Xitsonga (4.4%) OTHER OFICIAL LANGUAGES (7,2%) isiNdebele siSwati Tshivenda LANGUAGES

  9. Discovery of gold

  10. The /DutchBritish move westward and north and encounter the Zulu Tribe

  11. Afrikaner: White south africans Of Dutch/British ancestory apartied

  12. Sharpeville Massacre of 1960

  13. Soweto Riots of 1976

  14. Age of Democracy

  15. Nelson Mandela is freed From prison Feb 2 1990

  16. Post - apartheid

  17. Christian (68%) Muslim (2%) Hindu (1.5%) Indigenous beliefs (28.5%) RELIGIONS & INDIGENOUS BELIEFS

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