South Africa

About

Capital: Pretoria (administrative) Cape Town (legislative) Bloemfontein (judicial) 
Currency: Rand (ZAR)
Language: English 

South Africa is a medium-sized country, with a total land area of 1 219 090 square kilometres, or roughly equivalent in size to Niger, Angola, Mali or Colombia. It is one-eighth the size of the US, about a third the size of the European Union, twice the size of France and over three times the size of Germany. It measures some 1 600km from north to south, and roughly the same from east to west. The country lies between 22º and 35º south, flanked on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by the Indian Ocean, whose waters meet at the country's – and Africa's – most southern tip, Cape Agulhas.

The coastline stretches 2 798 kilometres from a desert border in the northwest, down the icy Skeleton Coast to Cape Agulhas, then up along the green hills and wide beaches on the coast of the Indian Ocean, to a border with subtropical Mozambique in the northeast.

The low-lying coastal zone is narrow for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment that separates it from the high inland plateau. 
A subtropical location, moderated by ocean on three sides of the country and the altitude of the interior plateau, makes South Africa a warm and sunny country. But it's also dry, with an average annual rainfall of about 464mm. While the Western Cape gets most of its rainfall in winter, the rest of the country is mostly a summer-rainfall region. 

Visa Requirements

General Information: http://www.dha.gov.za/index.php/immigration-services/apply-for-a-south-african-visa

Exempt Countries: http://www.dha.gov.za/index.php/immigration-services/exempt-countries

Travel Health

Compulsory: Yellow Fever (Dependant on Country of Origin/Stopover)
Recommended: Hepatitis A&B, Tetanus, Polio
Malaria Risk