| abstract | - Republiek van Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans)Republic of South Africa (English)Rephaboliki ya Afrika-Borwa (Northern Sotho)IRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika (South Ndebele)Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa (South Sotho)IRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika (Swazi)Riphabliki ra Afrika Dzonga (Tsonga)Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa (Tswana)Riphabuḽiki ya Afurika Tshipembe (Venda)IRiphabliki yaseMzantsi Afrika (Xhosa)IRiphabliki yaseNingizimu Afrika (Zulu) |} Capital Currency Area Pretoria ( Administrative) Cape Town (Legislative) Bloemfontein (Judicial) Pietermaritzburgh ( Archival) South African Rand2,045,320 sq km National anthem: (Die Stem van Suid-Afrika-The call of South Africa) The Republic' of South Africa is a country in the southern most part of Africa. It came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. Following the First World War, the Union of South Africa was granted the administration of the German South-West Africa colony as a League of Nations mandate and it became treated in most respects as if it were another province of the Union, with the exception of declaring German an official Language in the Province, as it was the language spoken by a great amount of whites there, though Afrikaans will became more prominent during the Following years though it was not Imposed. The Union of South Africa was founded as a dominion of the British Empire. It was governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, system that was replaced by a republic in 1961
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