South Africa

摘要

South Africa (hereafter SA) an emerging economy, is a country on the southernmost tip of the African continent, with a coastline stretching more than 2500 kilometres from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic (western) coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique on the Indian Ocean. The population within SA is 56 million, of which some 65% is urbanised and concentrated along the southern and south eastern coast, and inland areas around the eastern half of the country which is more densely populated than the west. Pretoria is the administrative capital of SA with a population of three million. According to world population statistics, SA's population is expected to reach 64 million by 2030.