when nelson mandela returned to south africa from zimbabwe, the cia alerted south africa's government, which put mandela in prison for 27 years. why did the cia do this?

they were afraid that mandela would spread communism in africa.

the longest walk on earth is from cape town, south africa to magadan, russia, a distance of 14,000 miles.

south africa has 11 official languages. bolivia recognizes 37, but spanish is given preference. (although the majority of its residents speak english, the united states has no official language.)

to protect the world's few remaining rhinos from poachers who sell their horns as aphrodisiacs in china, conservationists in south africa have injected their horns with a red dye that is toxic if ingested by humans.

in south africa, there is a species of roach that can jump twice as high and far as a grasshopper.

half of the unmined gold in the world is in south africa.

if you live in south africa, you can legally attach flame throwers to your car to repel carjackers.

if you are a woman in south africa, your chances of being raped are 50/50. for every 25 men accused of the crime, 24 go free.

during apartheid, south africa had a secret biological weapons program that was working on a bacteria that would only kill blacks. they also worked on ways of making blacks sterile and giving them cancer - all to keep them under the white population's control.