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| South Africa | |
| Aliases: | Republic of South Africa |
| Category: | Country |
| Continent: | Africa |
| Residents: | South Africans |
| Points of interest: | Capetown; Johannesburg |
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
South Africa was the central location of the 2009 Peter Jackson film District 9. In the film, a space ship piloted by an alien race referred to as "Prawns" took up position above South Africa. The Prawns were brought to the surface and relocated to the District 9 reservation camp. Twenty years later, an organization called Multinational United began evicting the prawns out of the district. Wikus van de Merwe, a worker at the MNU Department for Relations with Extraterrestrial Civilizations was charged with issuing eviction notices. Through the course of his work, Wikus became infected with prawn DNA and slowly transformed into one of them.
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Films that take place in South Africa[]
- District 9
- Tremors 5: Bloodlines
TV shows that take place in South Africa[]
Comics that take place in South Africa[]
Characters from South Africa[]
- Dominic Mndawe
- Grey Bradnam
- Kirk DePaul
- Mogatusi
- Ramonda
- Sarah Livingstone
- Wikus Van De Merwe
People who were born in South Africa[]
- Alice Krige
- Basil Rathbone
- Charlize Theron
- Cliff Simon
- Gavin Hood
- Glyn Jones
- Jonathan Liebesman
- Justine Waddell
- Maggie Kimberly
- Sharlto Copley
- Ted Moore
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Notes & Trivia[]
- In the film Alien, the part of Kane was originally to be played by British actor Jon Finch. On the first day of shooting however, Finch had a severe attack of diabetes and had to be taken to the hospital. In a rush to replace him, Ridley Scott sought out actor John Hurt. Hurt was initially unavailable due to a project that he was scheduled to work on in South Africa. As it turned out, Hurt was denied entrance into South Africa because the South African authorities had mistaken him for a political activist named "John Hurd", who had developed a reputation for his outspoken views against Apartheid. Unable to work in South Africa, Hurt then became available to work on Alien. [1]
- Actress Embeth Davidtz grew up in South Africa even though she was born in Lafayette, Indiana.
- The Syfy television series Blood Drive was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
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