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South Africa accepted the convention on 10 July 1997. There are ten World Heritage Sites in South Africa, with a further two on the tentative list. The first three sites in South Africa were added to the list in 1999 while the most recent one, the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains, was added in 2018.
Geography of South Africa. / 29.000°S 24.000°E / -29.000; 24.000. South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than 2,850 kilometres (1,770 miles) from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic (western) coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique ...
The Mandatory Provident Fund ( Chinese: 強制性公積金 ), often abbreviated as MPF ( 強積金 ), is a compulsory saving scheme ( pension fund) for the retirement of residents in Hong Kong. Most employees and their employers are required to contribute monthly to mandatory provident fund schemes provided by approved private organisations ...
The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [30] [31] [32] The economy is the most industrialized, technologically advanced, and diversified economy in Africa. [33] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South ...
Coat of arms of South Africa; Armiger: South Africa: Adopted: 27 April 2000; 24 years ago (): Shield: Arms: Or, representations of two San human figures of red ochre, statant respectant, the hands of the innermost arms clasped, with upper arm, inner wrist, waist and knee bands Argent, and a narrow border of red ochre; the shield ensigned of a spear and knobkierie in saltire, Sable.
9966. PO box. 9966. Area code. 051. Smithfield is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. Founded in 1848 in the Orange River Sovereignty (as the region was then named), the town is situated in a rural farming district and is the third oldest town in present-day Free State, after Philippolis and Winburg .
India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
The Laohu Valley Reserve (LVR) is a nature reserve located near Philippolis in the Free State and near Vanderkloof Dam in the Northern Cape of South Africa. [1] [2] It is a roughly 350-square-kilometre private reserve. It has been created with the aims of nurturing captive-born South China tigers ( Panthera tigris tigris) in South Africa and ...