the South Africa is located at the extreme south of the unintermitting African.

Its Climat is of the Mediterranean type around the Cape, tropical in North, whereas on the east coast one finds masses of humid air come from the Indian Ocean; on the littoral Atlantique the climate is arid.

Is country is crossed by the Monts Drakensberg.

The country is populated of 47.556.900 inhabitants. The three largest cities are the Cape with 2.984.100 inhabitants, Durban (2 531.300 hab.), Johannesburg (1 975.500 hab.) and Pretoria, the capital, whose population is of 1.473.800 inhabitants. (estimative Figures, 2004)

External bonds

• BENEDICTE KURZEN, the combat of the white farmers of Limpopo , in '' Le Monde '' (Web), 2/17/2006