Country facts
- Capital
- Pretoria
- Population
- 63,100,945
- Languages
- Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
- Currency
- South African rand (ZAR)
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June in South Africa
2 entries- 16Youth DayYouth Day is observed in South Africa. Recognized nationally.Public holiday→
- 21Father's DayHonors fathers and fatherhood. Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane proposed it in 1910 to match Mother's Day; took until 1972 to become a US federal observance. Most countries that celebrate it picked the third Sunday of June.Observance→