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Friday Challenge

Questions

1 Name the three capital cities of South Africa.

2 What is South Africa’s largest province by area?

3 What is the longest river in South Africa?

4 Which ocean borders South Africa to the south-west?

5 Who founded the Zulu Kingdom in the early 1800s?

6 What major war did Shaka’s military innovations lead to?

7 What 19th-century battle did the Zulus win against the British?

8 Who succeeded Mandela as president in 1999?

9 How many official languages does South Africa have?

10 Which South African language uses click consonants?

11 What language dominates legal and parliamentary use?

12 Name a South African language that isn’t Nguni.

13 What is the Zulu word for person?

14 What Durban street food is curry in a loaf?

15 What are South Africa’s big five?

16 What is South Africa’s internet country code?

17 Name a Zulu steamed bread.

18 What is the spicy relish that often accompanies pap?

19 On what side of the road do we drive in South Africa?

20 An endangered bird is iconic to South Africa and is also the country’s national bird, what is it called?

Answers: 1 Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial). 2 Northern Cape. 3 The Orange River. 4 The Atlantic Ocean. 5 King Shaka. 6 The Mfecane (‘Crushing’). 7 The Battle of Isandlwana. 8 Thabo Mbeki. 9 Eleven. 10 Xhosa and also Ndebele. 11 English. 12 Afrikaans or Sesotho. 13 umuntu (singular), abantu (plural). 14 Bunny chow. 15 Lion, leopard, elephant, hippo, Cape buffalo. 16 .za 17 Ujeqe or dombolo. 18 Chakalaka. 19 Left-hand side. 20 The blue crane.

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