South Africa

Sun City submitted by Alan W

Capital Pretoria (name may change to Tshwane.) Cape Town is legislative capital.

Languages 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu.

Currency Rand

South Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa, is the world's largest producer of platinum, gold and chromium as well as a major cultivator of marijuana. At the Western Cape is Robben Island a former prison (now a national monument) which was home to many of South Africa’s freedom fighters including Nelson Mandela.

Links

• Cyndi's List South African Links

• South Africa War Graves Project

• Genealogical Society of South Africa - GSSA Website

• South African Department of Home Affairs

• National Archives of South Africa

• South African Genealogy

• The South African Genealogist

• Ancestry24

• Free Databases

• South Africa Jewish Rootsbank

• Surname Navigator, South Africa

• Lehmkuhl Family Home Page

Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists

• See Separate Page

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