ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa's largest city, and the nations economic engine, is Johannesburg, which is often mistaken as the country's capital city. The label of “capital city” is, in fact, split between Cape Town, the legislative capital, Pretoria, the administrative capital and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital. It is, however, too easy to exclusively define the South African experience by these metropoles, when this diverse nation is home to nearly 50 million people who are spread throughout South Africa's nine provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, North-West Province, Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng.The climate zones of South Africa vary from desert in the southern Namib (in the northwestern corner of the country) to the lush subtropical climate alo...
