South Africa
08 Dec 2010
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General information
(Source: CIA World Factbook)
- Capital: South Africa has three capital cities: Cape Town, the largest of the three, is the legislative capital, Pretoria is the administrative capital, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital
- Head of government: President Jacob Zuma (9 May 2009)
- Inhabitants: approx. 49 million
- GDP/per capita: US$ 10,100 (2009 est.)
- Economic growth: -1.8% (2009 est.)
- Main languages: IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Northern Sotho 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2% (2001)
- School life expectancy: 13 years (2004)
- Education expenditures: 5.4% of GDP (2006)
- Internet users: approx. 4 million (2004)
Higher education
- Number of students in higher education: 799,490 (653,398 undergraduate and 118,622 postgraduate)
- Number of institutions: 11 traditional universities, 6 comprehensive universities and 6 technical universities
- Number of students in the Netherlands: 100
