Welcome to Displore and Thanks for watching, In todays video we are taking you all the way to southern part of Africa and we are shining the light on South Africa. officially the Republic of South Africa , South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 24th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 58 million people, is also the world's 24th-most populous nation. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Bantu ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages, nine of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European, Asian, and multi-racial South Africa is one of the most beautiful and developed countries in Africa, its capital is Pretoria and its current president is Cryil Ramaphosa If you are new here welcome, be sure to subscribe and turn on notification so you don’t miss any of our videos. South Africa is a multi-ethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. So let take a closer look with the 10 things you didn’t know about South Africa. 1. South Africa has 11 Official Languages South Africa is the Rainbow Nation, a title that captures the country's cultural and ethnic diversity. The population of South Africa is one of the most complex and diverse in the world. Of the 58.7 million South Africans, over 43 million are black, 4.7 million are white, 4.6 million are coloured and about 1.3 million Indian or Asian. About 51.3% are female, and 48.7% male. South Africa's Constitution recognises 11 official languages making south Africa the first country with the most official languages in the world. The languages include Sepedi (also known as Sesotho sa Leboa), Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Xhosa and Zulu. For centuries South Africa's official languages were European – Dutch, English, Afrikaans. 2. South African was the first African country to recognize same sex marriage Africa is one of the most homophobic Continents in the world, most African countries don’t support smane sex marriages in their countries, however south Africa was the first African country to recognize same sex marriages. Same-sex marriage in South Africa has been legal since the Civil Union Act came into force on 30 November 2006. The decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie on 1 December 2005 extended the common-law definition of marriage to include same-sex spouses as the Constitution of South Africa guarantees equal protection before the law to all citizens regardless of sexual orientation and gave Parliament one year to rectify the inequality in the marriage statutes. On 14 November 2006, the National Assembly passed a law allowing same-sex couples to legally solemnise their union, which was subsequently approved by the National Council of Provinces on 28 November in a 36 to 11 vote, and the law came into effect two days later. 3. South Africa is home to the world’s 2nd Largest brewing industry The South African Breweries Limited is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016. The company that is now South African Breweries was founded in 1895 as Castle Brewery to serve a growing market of miners and prospectors in and around Johannesburg. Two years later, it became the first industrial company to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the year after (1898) it listed on the London Stock Exchange. Today South African Brewery is the second largest brewery company in the world and has branches in 75 countries. His has help reduce the rate of unemployment in South Africa as it employs thousand of people. 4. Nicki Oppenheime is the richest Man in South Africa Nicholas F. Oppenheimer born 8 June 1945 is a South African billionaire businessman and philanthropist.He is currently the richest man in South Africa and the third richest man in Africa with a net work of 7.4 Billion Dollars. He was formerly the chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company, and former deputy chairman of Anglo American. Oppenheimer, heir to his family’s fortune, sold his 40% stake in diamond firm DeBeers to mining group Anglo American for $5.1 billion in cash in 2012. He was the third generation of his family to run DeBeers, and took the company private in 2001. For 85 years until 2012, the Oppenheimer family occupied a controlling spot in the world’s diamond trade