South+Africa

Created by Melisa López Lucena toc =My Country Facts=

General information
The Republic of South Africa 1961
 * Official country name:**
 * Year that country joined the UN:**

People
The people of South Africa are called South Africans.
 * 1.What are the people from the country called (i.e. Mali-Malian, Spain-Spanish)?**

The official language of South Africa is Afrikaans. The other languages that the people speak are English, Ndebele, Sesotho, Sesotho sa leboa, Setsuana, Suazi, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu.
 * 2.What is the official language? What other languages do people speak?**

The most-practiced religion is Christianity then Islam and finally the Hinduism, but they are other religions.
 * 3.What is the most-practiced religion?**

They are a intermediate degree of risk, bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever are food or waterborne diseases and schistosomiasis are a type of disease in water contact.
 * 4.What are the major infectious diseases?**

Government
The leader of the country is Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma.
 * 1.What is the name of the leader of the country?**

It is a Republic.
 * 2.What type of government is the country ruled by (i.e. monarchy, democracy, dictatorship?)**

African Christian Democratic Party, African National Congress, Congress of the People, Democratic Alliance, Freedom Front Plus, Independent Democrats, Inkatha Freedom Party, Pan-Africanist Congress, United Christian Democratic Party and the United Democratic Movement
 * 3.What are the main political parties of the country( socialist party, communist party, green party, republicans, democrats, etc?)**

Yes South Africa was a colony of Britain. It gained independence in 1961.
 * 4.Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence?**

South Africa scored well in the categories of Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption and Participation and Human Rights but was let down by its relatively poor performance in Safety and Security.
 * 5.Which categories South Africa scored well?**

Geography
South Africa is at the Southern tip of the continent of Africa.
 * 1.Where is the country? (i.e continent and region, for example Central Europe or North Africa)**

The nations that border the country are Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
 * 2.What other nations border the country?**

The vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal.
 * 3.What kind of landscape does the country have?**

You can find gold, chromium, antimony, cool, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem, diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt and natural gas.
 * 4.What natural resources can you find in your country?**

Economy
The most common sector is the services sector.
 * 1.What is the most common sector of employment in the country?**

In the last census of South Africa in 2009 the unemployment was 24%
 * 2.What is the unemployment rate in your country?**

The internacional trading partners of South Africa are Germany, the United States, China, Japan, the United Kingdom and Spain.
 * 3.What are the principal international trading partners of South Africa?**

The most important surprising thing I learned about my country was: My country speaks many languages that I dont know after.

=My Prediction= Animal Trafficking: I think that South Africa don´t do animal trafficking but the people on the countries that surrounded it or other places, came here to take animals because on South Africa are a variety of animals like lions, giraffes, etc.

Child labor: I think that in my country these happens continuously because South Africa is one of the poor countries in the world that haven´t got much money, so the families need to support their selves and they do it working all the family, these is not good because the children need to have an education to have a great life and to aspire to a better job. Also I think the children have a big problem with these works because in most of the times the jobs are stressful and bad for their health because are hard works and they work many hours.

=Position Paper= The Republic of South Africa´s Position Paper (1st Draft)