SOUTH AFRICA

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Context: South Africa's recent election results marked a departure from the norm, with the African National Congress (ANC) losing its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since it began contesting elections in 1994.

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About South Africa

• South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa, bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, and Lesotho.
• Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, Bloemfontein is the judicial capital, and the Constitutional Court is located in Johannesburg.
• The country is a multiethnic society with 12 official languages, the fourth-highest number in the world.
• It is the only African nation to legislate same-sex marriage.
• The country has the largest and most industrialised, technologically advanced economy in Africa.
• South Africa has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa.
• The Great Escarpment, whose eastern stretch is known as the Drakensberg, is the highest peak in the country.
• The interior of South Africa consists of a large, almost flat plateau with an altitude of between 1,000 m and 2,100 m. The plateau is surrounded by the Great Karoo, a sparsely populated shrubland, the Bushmanland, the Kalahari Desert, the Highveld, and the Limpopo River lowlands or Lowveld.
• The Cape Peninsula forms the southernmost tip of the coastal strip which borders the Atlantic Ocean and terminates at the country's border with Namibia at the Orange River.
• South Africa has a temperate climate due to its proximity to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, mild Southern Hemisphere, and rising elevation.

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