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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about South Africa.

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1. The world’s largest visible crater is in South Africa. The Vredefort crater is the largest verified impact crater on Earth, more than 300 km across when it was formed. Around 2,030 million years ago a meteor the size of a mountain (about 10km across) fell to earth in South Africa’s Free State making a crater 300km across; it is the oldest crater made by either a comet or meteorite and reportedly the site of the largest energy release in history.

2. South Africa has three capital cities – Cape Town (Legislative), Pretoria (Administrative) and Bloemfontein (Judicial).

3. The Dutch and the British fought over South Africa. The first Europeans settlers were Dutch traders on the Europe-Far East spice route who founded Cape Colony (now Cape Town) in 1652. The British seized Cape Colony in 1795 and a few years later the Dutch farmers (boers) fled north to claim lands and establish the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. This is why Afrikaans, a language resembling Dutch, is one of the official languages of South Africa.

4. For nearly 50 years, there was a state of apartheid – white minority rule – in South Africa. When the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948 their policy of apartheid (separateness) segregated blacks and whites, forced hundreds of thousands of people to resettle in black ‘homelands’, and imprisoned, killed or sent opponents into exile. The African National Congress fought against apartheid initially through civil disobedience but after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre (when police killed 70 protesters), it formed a military wing under Nelson Mandela.

5. South Africa is the only country in the world to build and then decide to dismantle the whole of its nuclear weapons program. Former president Frederik Willem de Klerk said South Africa had built six crude atomic bombs and had started a seventh during a 15-year clandestine project, when it decided to voluntarily dismantle its arsenal in 1989.

6. The Bloukrans Bridge, Western Cape, is the highest commercial natural bungee jump in the world. The 216m jump off the Bloukrans Bridge, Africa’s highest bridge, falls over the Bloukrans river valley.

7. It’s been estimated there are around 3,000 shipwrecks off the coast of South Africa. The 3,000km of coastline, including the infamous Cape of Good Hope and the coastline of the Eastern Cape, have been claiming seafaring victims for centuries. All shipwrecks are now protected under South African law.

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