Global Communication of South Africa

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION OF SOUTH AFRICA

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

MRS. ANDERSON

BY: TAMETRIUS WALKER

People have inhabited Southern Africa for thousands of years. Members of the Khoisan language groups are the oldest surviving inhabitants of the land only a few are left in South Africa today, and they are located in the western sections. Black South Africans belong to the Bantu language group, which migrated south from central Africa. The Nguni, ancestors of the Zulu and Xhosa, occupied most of the eastern cost by 1500. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach the Cap of Good Hope, arriving in 1488. White settlement did not begin until 1652, when the Dutch East India Company established a provisioning station on the Cape. By 1779, European settlements extended throughout the southern part of the Cape and east toward the Great Fish River. Dutch and the Xhosa fought the first frontier war in South Africa, but the British gained control of the Cape of Good Hope at the end of the 18th century. British settlement and rule marked the beginning of a long conflict between the Afrikaners and the English.

Africa is in the field of Geography usually divided into four main following parts and one of them is South Africa which majority of the population Christian with The Republic of South Africa being the center of tourism. Mainly English spoken, Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez. Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34 51’15”S,is a distance approximately of 8,000 km (5,000 mi); from CapeVerde,17 33’22”W, The westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51 27’52”E, the most easterly projection, is a distance (also approximately) of 7,400 km (4,600 mi). Africa is the thus composed of the two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, the southern from north to south, the subordinate lines corresponding in the main to these two...