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**This is a picture of an ad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. It become a tramendous money booster until the bills came and it showed that South Africa was only capable of "breaking even". It also brought the country together after all of the bad things such as AIDS, rape, murder, robbery among other crime acts, that South Africa was known for. The murder rate was way down for the month long time period and so were the deaths. People still died from AIDS and people were still murdered for no reason at all, but overall everyone came together and shed a positive light on South Africa. The World Cup showed the world that South Africa had the capability to host such an enormous crowd and bring the country to together to set the stage for one of the worlds' largest competition next to the Olympics. The World Cup is the biggest way to bring all the countries of the world together, and South Africa did with no complications.**
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 * [|Chinese and South African business relations.] **
 * President Zuma of South Africa visited China back in August to earn the bilateral trade of Chinese corporations. When conducting business with the Chinese, it is very important to learn the word Guen Xi. It is the idea of mixing business life and personal life. When practicing Guen Xi, it is very common to give your business partner gifts. When giving gifts, it is very important to be color savvy. There are certain colors that you should make sure to use; red, silver, or yellow. Never use white when giving them a gift. White is the color of death for the Chinese, it is what they use at funerals. Once you master Guen Xi, you have a much better chance of securing the deal with the Chinese. One company that has successfully done this Mulilo Renewable Energy. CEO JOhn Callum has been doing business with the Chinese with his base of operations in South Africa. One Chinese company has a 51% stake in Mulilo while the other has a 30% stake. Mulilo has hired Chinese personel from the business partners and Chinese secretaries and interpretors to help with better communications. I chose this video of the South African news channel because it shows both sides of the Chinese business practicies and talks about what one company is doing with business partners in China. **
 * [|South African document shows ties with Apartheid South Africa] **
 * This video talks about a set of documents that the Israelis claim not to exist, and/or to be false. These documents talk about the nuclear warheads that Israeli was to have said to have in their posession. There are four documents: the first is minutes before a meeting between high level denfense officials on Israeli and South Africa in 1975. It talks about the possible exchange of Jericho missles with nuclear warheads in three different sizes. The second document is a memo to the South African defense officials to his superiors about the importance of Jericho missles armed with nuclear warheads. The third is a signed secrecy agreement between the President of South Africa and the President of Israeli governing all transfers of money in the military. This cooperation between the countries continued in the 80s where South Africa was offered medium-range missles but only wanted them if they were armed with nuclear warheads. I those this document because of its obvious connection economically and politically between South Africa and Israeli. **
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 * [|Time's 100 List] **
 * South Africa has breed an international genius, Mr. Elon Musk. He is the Co-founder of the internet online payment service, Pay-Pal. Which was eventually bought by Ebay. He is a internet wizard, rocket science, and "pioneer" in green energy. He is the only person on Time 100 list from the country of South Africa. Musk also designs vehicles that transport astronauts and space shuttles. The South African genius moved when was 17, first to Canada, but is now based in the United States. His design is to be used in the Falcon 9, NASA's next space shuttle transporter. He also designed the Tesla, the first modern electric car. HIs invention have put South Africa out in the big scale scientific market, along with Russia, Iran, Japan, China, and the US. **
 * [|South African Trade, Imports, and Exports] **
 * South Africa's trading and exportation industry relys almost exclusively on its mining of natural resources such as gold, diamonds, platinum and other precious metals. In 2009, South African exports were estimated at 67.93billion dollars last year with the US and Japan each having the highest percentage of South African exports at 11.1%. Due to the fact that they were exporting more, they were not able to import as much, and that made there dollar worth less, and being more comparable to the US dollar which was and is also down. South Africa is one of the top exporters of diamonds in Africa. **