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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people (as of 2009, see table) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the World's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Not counting the disputed territory of Western Sahara, there are 53 countries, including Madagascar and various island groups, associated with the continent. Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (human) found in Ethiopia being dated to ca. 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Is South Africa socially and economically better, worse, or the same after Apartheid? Q. After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, and since blacks have ruled the government; is South Africa better, worse, or the same? Explain. Asked by The Equalist - Tue Aug 28 00:06:40 2007 - - 17 Answers - 1 Comments A. Lets talk economics. Economically South Africa has measurably suffered great losses- however, this was bound to happen. One cannot compare the country south africa is now, with apartheid south africa, there is no longer a huge population indentured by poverty and their situation to produce- this economic downturn is bound to happen whilst South Africa migrates from an agrarian virtually slave-based labour force to more automated systems of labour. I believe it is a matter of growing pains, with the alleviation of slavery and massive social reform, comes decades of unrest and the surfacing of hatreds both modern and ancient. Though this is unfortunate, it is an inevitability, whilst apartheid, economically speaking, worked, so did slavery… [cont.] Answered by Way - Tue Aug 28 02:51:39 2007 How is South Africa a 1st world country, extremely civilized, and the rest of Africa is not? Q. Even the 2 countries that are basically INSIDE of South Africa - Lesotho and Swaziland - are uncivilized. South Africa also has equal rights for LGBT, which is a huge step, while the rest of Africa basically bans homosexuality and many countries use the death penalty against homosexuals. How did South Africa seemingly rapidly industrialize compared to the rest of Africa? There's not even any "civilized" countries anywhere around them. Asked by Masta P - Mon Feb 16 17:32:19 2009 - - 5 Answers - 1 Comments A. Well cape town was the first colony the British had in Africa, and it worked hard to keep it and develop it as it was a key port town. So Britain poured a lot of effort into stabilising it and industrialising it, and formed a country that could look after itself, so when it declared independence it could stand on it's own two feet, whereas other African colony's asked for independence when they had only just started with government, and therfore encountered corruption amongst other problems. Since the 1950's, South Africa has been able to capatalise on it's huge diamond mine resources to provide huge industrialisation. Lesotho and Swaziland are basically the lands granted to tribes of South Africa, but are civilised; they have good… [cont.] Answered by Adam - Mon Feb 16 19:24:22 2009 Why did the Dutch reformed church in south africa condone and support the cruel system of Apartheid?
Q. And why did it take almost 300 years for christian churches worldwide to finally speak out against the dutch reformed church of south africa and severing links with it ? Asked by Apu (Namaste from kwik E mart) - Mon Jun 1 07:11:02 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. Apartheid was only around from 1948 onwards. Churches started speaking out about slavery in the 1700's but the concept of racial prejudice as something bad is fairly modern. Look at movies from the 1940's for example. blacks were generally portrayed as simple folk who needed a firm hand. In South Africa the Dutch Reformed Church was and maybe still is very much old testament orientated. In the OT laws, beliefs and concepts are very different from the NT, but in both time periods, slavery was common. The Bible is people's interpretation and memory of what God said or Jesus said as well as historical commentary and the sayings of prophets and disciples. You can find and interpret comments to justify almost anything somewhere or other in… [cont.] Answered by denissnowy - Thu Jun 4 08:09:32 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Africa"
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