South Africa

South AfricaGood morning very body ! I feel so honor to represent my group to stand here to introduce a country which attract attention worldwide at this moment .---That is south Africa.First of all , member introduction . there are six girls in my group .thanks for their effort to this presentation .OK, let’s begin the presentation .Today’s presentation Divided i nto four parts . in fist parts is South Africa’s basic situation, next is the Economic and trade culture of South Africa. And then is culture of South Africa. Last part will give some tips for doing business with South Africa .this part belongs to 田丫代子。

Well , now let’s go to south Africa . The Republic of South Africa is located at the very southern end of the African continent. It covers an area of 1.2 million square km, owning a land boundary of 4,862 km and the coastline of 2,798 km.it’s surrounded by the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, South Africa has three capitalcities ,The administrative capital of the country is Pretoria. The legislative capital is Cape Town while the judicial one is Bloemfontein. The whole country is divided into nine provinces.South Africa has 49 .1 million population .it law divided the population into four major racial categories: Africans (black), whites, coloreds, and Asians. Black Africans account for 80% of the population ,Look at Black Africans first .they are divided into a number of different ethnic groups . South Africa‘s first indigenous people is the Koisan(科伊桑人） and the Bantu people （班图人）.After a long time, Bantu（班图人）formed the following nine major groups: Zulu, Swazi, Venda and so on .Whites comprise just over 9% of the population. They are primarily descendants of Dutch, French, English, and German settlers who began arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the late 17th century.AS for Asians ,Indian is the major parts of this group ,more than 90% are Indian . There are About 3.79 million colored people, they are the mixed descent of indigenous people and slaves.Different ethnic people faith in Different religion .the White people, most of the color and 60% of Africans are Christian ,Protestant or Catholic ; About 60% of Asians believe in Hinduism ; 20% of population believe in Muslim ; some Africans believe in primitive religion.There are eleven official languages in South Africa, English and Afrikaans is a universal language.Ok ,finish this part ,we are going to south Africa economy. According to the statistics ,we could learn about some economical index in 2009, the GDP is 313.3 billion dollars, Inflation rate is 5.1% ,Official unemployment rate is 25.2% .this chart shows the revenue and expenditure of south Africa’s government in resent years. we can see that the income just little more than the expenditure.As to industrial structure，South Africa's economy shows the feature of developed countries，service industry contributes most in its development .it account for 67.2%. Mining, manufacturing, agriculture and services are the four pillars of the economy,South Africa has good infrastructure and abundant resource, he is one of the world's five major minerals country and the deep-mining technology leader in the world .South Africa has become the largest gold producer and exporterAs for Manufacturing ,Iron and steel industry is the backbone of the manufacturing sector in South Africa, with six iron and steel company, 130 steel companiesAnd the Agriculture provides 13% of formal employment opportunities.30% of Non-gold exports income are from agricultural or agro-processing.With regard to the international trade , we could that its export is 5154 while the import amount is 5412 millions of rand, Imports over exports. and there is something special ,from this chart, we could know that South Africa is a country which net import of the petroleum ,and net export of gold .His Export destination countries include China, Japan, the United State, Germany, Britain, and so on ,and china is in forth place in his non- Agricultural products export .the main export products include gold , metals and metal products, diamonds, beverages and tobacco, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures.the Import products are machinery, transport equipment, chemical products, petroleum.the top ten import source countries were: China, Germany, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Angola, Iran, Japan, Britain, France, India. The graph illustrate that the amount of South Africa import from china is larger than other country .now we come to the culture .according to Cultural Dimension of Hofstede, we will analysis the five part .we find a chart in other reference material.it show that there is large power distance in that society .people prefer Collectivism than Individualism. They always have Short-term orientation.As for power distance ,In South Africa, power distance regime from the Apartheid. South Africa‘s Apartheid exist during 1948 to 1994, Before 1994, the whitesmaster the political and economic power, people of color to become a source of cheap labor; many blacks in white-owned farms, but only got the white one-tenth of their wages which often can not support his family; also has many black unemployment.By 2010, the blacks control 25% of banking sector capital and asset, 15% of mining companies assets shall be transferred to black ownership within 5 years, the proportion required to achieve 26% within 10 years. For historical reasons, the whites is of high consumption level, the black-oriented is of low consumption level.And next In South Africa, people prefer Collectivism than Individualism.In south Africa , Families often live together with close relatives. The head of the family manage the family funds and help other poor relatives, he use the right to make decision in most things. This paternalistic style extends to the work values.Then, South Africa also full of MasculinityMasculinity was prevalence in traditional African society . The black women were regarded as men's accessories, women in the family and society have little right to speak .However, South African black women have increasingly awakening, a black female vice president was born in 2005. Finally ,people in South Africa have Short –term orientationThe Africans respect the traditions and social status , they Pursue results with regardless of cost .so to some extent they don’t have long-range plan .。