{"id":106669,"date":"2026-06-04T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=106669"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:02:05","slug":"south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>South Africa Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, India and South Africa agreed to scale up bilateral cooperation in future technologies, with Artificial Intelligence, Digital Infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About South Africa<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>southernmost country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><b>African continent.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering Countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe (North); Mozambique (Northeast) and Eswatini (East) and Lesotho (an enclave in East).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Maritime Boundaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has coastline on both Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pretoria (Executive), Cape Town (Legislative), and Bloemfontein (Judicial)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of South Africa<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> South Africa experiences a generally subtropical and temperate climate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mountain Range:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in southern Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mafadi peak is the highest point in South Africa at a height of 11,320 feet which is located at the border South Africa and Lesotho<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Limpopo, Orange<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It mainly consists of manganese, chromium, gold and aluminum and Platinum-group metals etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2268311&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is the southernmost country on the African continent. Read more about South Africa, Bordering Countries, Capital, Geographical Features, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":106695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7954],"class_list":{"0":"post-106669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-south-africa","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106714,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106669\/revisions\/106714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}