Outline Rough Draft - South Africa
...n 1996 and 1997. In 1994, Mandela won 63 percent of the vote in the 1994 April election. World leaders gathered on May 10 as Mandela was taken in as president of ‘’the new’’ South Africa. In 1999, South Africa’s second all-race elections were scheduled for June 2nd. During the voting, President Thabo Mbeki had a huge lead over the other candidates. 2. PEERS Aspects: · Political: In July 2002, the constitution court orders the government to provide an anti-aids drug at all public hospitals. The government argued and said that the drug would cost too much money. In September 2004, thousands of public sector workers had a strike over their pay. The government and union had agreed on a deal. In November of 2001, the ruling of the new national party had announced a merger, and in December 2001 courts ruled that pregnant women must be given Aids drugs to help prevent spreading the virus to their babies. Republic government. · Economical: The number of children enrolled in education has increased by over 5 million since 1994. The average number of learners per teacher has decreased from 40 to 34. This is all due to financial problems. South Africa has a stock exchange that ranks among the ten largest in the world. There has been little or no growth to the high unemployment rate, and bad economical problems remain. · Environmental: South Africa is located at the southern tip of the African Continent. The climate is mostly tropical, with warm days and cool nights. South Africa completely surrounds Lesotho and almost completely surrounds Swaziland. · Religious: Christian is the most practiced religion in South Africa, with 68% of its people. The Christians are mostly whites, about 60% of blacks and about 40% of Indians). Muslim is 2%, Hindu 1.5%(60% of the Indians), and other beliefs and animist is 28.5%. · Social: The telephone system is the best developed, and most modern system in South Africa. They use radio broadcast stations, and television statio...