Q.1

The executive capital of South Africa is ...
  

(R1.1)

Pretoria

(R1.2)

Capetown

(R1.3)

Johannesburg
  

Q.2

The country has ...official languages
  

(R2.1)

5

(R2.2)

9

(R2.3)

11
  

Q.3

Nearly 80 per cent of the population is ...
  

(R3.1)

Black

(R3.2)

White

(R3.3)

Coloured
  

Q.4

It officially became a parliamentary republic in ...
  

(R4.1)

1931

(R4.2)

1949

(R4.3)

1961
  

Q.5

The two major historic groups of inhabitants were the ...peoples
  

(R5.1)

Zulu and Xhosa

(R5.2)

Hutu and Xhosa

(R5.3)

Hutu and Zulu
  

Q.6

The Cape of Good Hope was first nicknamed ...
  

(R6.1)

The Cape of Torments

(R6.2)

The Cape of Misery

(R6.3)

The Cape of Storms
  

Q.7

The first station established near the Cape was ...
  

(R7.1)

British

(R7.2)

Dutch

(R7.3)

French
  

Q.8

The Cape colony became British in ...
  

(R8.1)

1789

(R8.2)

1806

(R8.3)

1914
  

Q.9

The system of racial segregation was called ...
  

(R9.1)

Segregationism

(R9.2)

Apartheid

(R9.3)

Separation
  

Q.10

Its first universal elections were held in ...
  

(R10.1)

1984

(R10.2)

1994

(R10.3)

2004
  

Q.11

The motto of South Africa is ...
  

(R11.1)

May the rain fall

(R11.2)

Together forever

(R11.3)

Unity in diversity
  

Q.12

Its first Black president was ...
  

(R12.1)

Nelson Mandela

(R12.2)

Frederik de Klerk

(R12.3)

Barack Obama
  


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This quiz was made by Cathy Davies