Вставьте пропущенные слова 1) spoken languages.
2) the history of a country.
3) geography
4) war history.
5) a famous person.
6) food.
A. The Republic of South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa. The area was originally occupied by an ethnic group of
people called the Zulu who had migrated to the south from other parts of Africa over a thousand years. South Africa later
became a Dutch colony and after that - a British colony. In 1961, the country gained independence from Britain and
became a republic.
B. In 1948, the government classified the South African population into races and gave them different rights. This legal
segregation known as apartheid ended in 1993 with the release of Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid revolutionary, after 27
years in prison. Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa.
C. The Boer Wars were a series of conflicts between the Dutch settlers of South Africa (the Boers) and the British colonists.
After France invaded the Dutch Republic during the Napoleonic Wars, the British invaded South Africa and took control. This
caused a lot of tension between the Dutch and British colonists and resulted in several wars of independence.
D. South Africa has 11 official languages including Zulu (the language of the Zulu tribes, native to the area), Afrikaans (a
Germanie language that evolved from Dutch) and English. The three most spoken languages are Zulu, Xhosa (a native African
Bantu language, notable for its use of click consonants) and Afrikaans, although English is recognized as the language
of commerce and science.
E. The majority of South Africa consists of flat plateaus surrounded by steep slopes called the Great Escarpment. As you go
further north the climate becomes drier and drier until the landscape fades completely into the Kalahari Desert.​

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