South Africa, Here I Come!

So my final stop on the Immersion trip with Adventures In Missions is: South Africa. Here’s what I’ve found out about this country:

The map looks like this:

It’s capitol is: Pretorica, Cape Town

South Africa is slightly smaller than TWO Texas states

The currency is called the South African Rand 1USD = (about) 7 ZAR – South Africa is the richest and more industrialized country in Africa.

The official languages are: English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sepedi, Xhosa, Venda, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Zulu, Swazi, and Tsonga – I promise I didn’t just start typing letters this is what I found. . .

April 27th the country celebrates “Freedom Day”

Population: 48,810,427 (July 2012)

50% people living in poverty (est. 2000 – the most recent I could find) – I can only pray and hope that it is a smaller amount today.

5.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS (2009 est.)

Religion: 36.6% Christian, 7.1% Catholic, 1.5% Muslim, 38.3% other, 1.4% unspecified, 15.1% none

An estimated 1.5 children in South Africa are orphaned.