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Christianity

Atheism

Catholic

Protestant

Jewish

Islam

Hindi

ReligionAdherents % Adherents %

2001 2007

Undetermined 610,974 1.36

Other 283,815 0.63

Non-religious 6,767,165 15.10 3,262,428 8.08

Judaism 75,549 0.17 68,640 0.17

Islam 654,064 1.46 985,460 1.45

Hinduism 551,668 1.23 504,707 1.25

Christianity 35,750,641 79.77 29,684,861 73.52

Buddhism/Chinese folk 12,113 0.03

African traditional belief 125,898 0.28 6,056,487 15.00

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• Human Rights Day March 21st

• On April 27th, South Africans celebrate Freedom Day

• Worker’s Day on May 1st

• June 16th, Youth Day • National Women’s Day August 9th• Heritage Day on September• Day of Reconciliation on

December 16th

Potjiekos Umqombothi

• The FIFA World Cup in 2010 gave the world a glimpse of modern South Africa. However, it was also criticized for failing to portray what living in South Africa means for large parts of the population. The country is diverse in all possible aspects, from language to religion, owing to the many, many ethnicities unified in this nation.

• The reality, however, still shows the old divides in terms of education and income, for example. Blacks are, statistically speaking, still the most underprivileged group within South African society. Nonetheless, change does come step by step, and South Africa has already successfully begun to lose the aftertaste of decades of governmental inequality and segregation through a series of countermeasures.

• Today, some of the most important economic sectors include industry, particularly the automotive and the emerging IT and communications sectors. About a quarter of the population is out of a job, and the majority of unemployed people live on less than 1.25 USD a day, the threshold for extreme poverty.

• South Africa has the continent's biggest economy, though this went into recession in May 2009 following a sharp slowdown in the mining and manufacturing sectors. The construction industry, on the other hand, benefited from a huge program of government investment ahead of the 2010 World Cup. South Africa is, along with China, Brazil, Russia and India, a member of the BRICS club of emerging world economic powerhouses.

• South Africa has the second-highest number of HIV/Aids patients in the world. Around one in seven of its citizens is infected with HIV. Free anti-retroviral drugs are available under a state-funded scheme.