A Brief Note On The Country Of South Africa

As a land-locked state Lesotho is cut off from sea resources and international trade borne of the sea, the country finds itself reliant on South Africa for access to sea ports and the international market. Due to this geographical disposition international legal instruments exist to cushion such states and often bilateral arrangements are drafted (Conca, 2006). These agreements come in the form of treaties with provided the rules, norms and principles and procedures for making decisions also known as regime theory. And since the Lesotho Highlands Water Treaty has been signed in 1986 it is necessary to look into the sustainability of the treaty and the impact it has had. The Lesotho government maintains that this is a crucial treaty for the

Firstly, 3 500-4 000 jobs were created through this project, thereby boosting the local economy. Secondly, Lesotho’s infrastructure improved immensely, because roads were needed to transfer the different machinery and so roads were made on the mountains and building housing for villages.

As the anti-apartheid struggle ramped up in South Africa in the 1980s, the Kagiso Trust was formed as a NGO to support the struggle against apartheid and to distribute funds from the European Union and other donors. This was to provide the uplifting and empowerment of disadvantaged communities in South Africa through various development initiatives. At this stage, the core focus of the Kagiso Trust was on “building partnerships and collaborations to strengthen the implementation capacity of people and organisations in development”[1]. Following South Africa’s transition into democracy in 1994, the Kagiso Trust refocused its goals and efforts on education [1], which is considered a critical component in the eradication of inequality.

With expansionism, which started in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labor Model. This was the first model of expansionism got by the Dutch 1652 and hence sent out from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Numerous South Africans are the relatives of slaves conveyed to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The progressions created on African social orders by the inconvenience of European pilgrim guideline happened one after another. Indeed, it was the rate with which change happened that set the pioneer time separated from before periods in South Africa. Obviously, not all social orders were similarly changed. Some opposed the powers of pilgrim interruption,

Suriname: timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp, bauxite, gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron ore

Gabon is a small country that lies on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa. It has three other borders including Guinea, Cameroon, and the Congo (see Figure 3). It has an area of 103,000 square miles, which is a bit smaller than the state of California. Besides that, Gabon can be broken down into three different regions. These regions are a narrow coastal plain, a mountainous middle (see Figures 1 and 4), and a savanna in the southeastern parts. The two large mountain ranges on Gabon include the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif mountain mass. Mont Iboundji is the highest point of the African country at 2,534 feet. The center of the country contains hundreds of caves and rock formations. Ogooue is a 746 mile long river.

Although Tanzania is a very poor country and is dependent on foreign aid, 75% of the population is involved in farming and the country is the leading producer of sisal and cloves. Most of the production of cloves worldwide come from Zanzibar and Pemba Islands. Aside from sisal and cloves, Tanzania also exported coffee, cotton, tobacco, copra, tea, and peppers. Mining

The movie invictus portrays a very controversial issue that has been presented throughout history in many ethnic groups and is seen in societies up to these days. The apartheid is clearly pictured in the movie through many of the attitudes and actions that people take towards the other race they live in their day by day. What is more, Mandela constitutes one of the most important figures in South Africa, especially for the black race as he liberated them from the apartheid. From those days Mandela has been recognized worldwide as a major symbol of the rainbow nation; a reality of distinction between the black and the white people and its establishing differe nces.

Many of the contemporary issues in South Africa can easily be associated with the apartheid laws which devastated the country. The people of South Africa struggle day by day to reverse “the most cruel, yet well-crafted,” horrific tactic “of social engineering.” The concept behind apartheid emerged in 1948 when the nationalist party took over government, and the all-white government enforced “racial segregation under a system of legislation” . The central issues stem from 50 years of apartheid include poverty, income inequality, land ownership rates and many other long term affects that still plague the brunt of the South African population while the small white minority still enjoy much of the wealth, most of the land and opportunities

South African heritage and culture is immensely diverse, and consists of many different groups of people who each have their own traditions and beliefs. Having such a diversity of people and cultures is what makes South Africa so unique. In the true sense of the phrase, we are a rainbow nation.

no gene pools. Therefore, there is no human race that is intellectually superior to another.

Namibia is a small African state, situated on the south western coast of the continent; most of its land is dominated by the Namib Desert and the Kalahari desert. Politically, the country is a unitary state, divided into 13 political regions. Economically, the country’s major activities are mining, agriculture, fishing, and manufacturing agricultural products for export and for domestic consumption. Namibia’s main trading partners are the European Union, Japan, the United States of America, Switzerland, member states of the Southern Africa Development Community and the Southern Africa Customs Union.

South Africa is located in the southern part of Africa and is approximately 1.2million km sq. in size, just slightly less than twice the size of the state of Texas. It has a population of 54.96 million people with females constituting 51% of the population while the remaining 49% are males. South Africa has three capitals and they are located in Pretoria, Cape-town, and Bloemfontein while the constitutional court is located in Johannesburg. South Africa has the second largest economy in Africa, behind Nigeria and its main income sources are, manufacturing, tourism, agriculture, energy, including mining and agriculture.

Tea and coffee reign as the country’s main agricultural products, and hydroelectric power is Kenya’s main industrial product.

From the 17th century until the early 1900’s, European countries were fighting to get tracks of land across Africa. Although South Africa was unified by Great Britain in 1910, the African National Congress was formed two years later. It was only on Dec 11, 1931 after World War II when Britain gave South Africa its’ independence as a country. For the first sixty years after South Africa was claimed independent, white minority rulers dominated the country. South Africa is now an independent Nation but is still a member of the British Commonwealth.