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BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, [1] the grouping evolved into an actual geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.
see also languages of China: Head of State: Xi Jinping Head of Government: Li Qiang: 2009-06-16 (Informally, September 2006) South Africa Republic of South Africa: Pretoria (executive) Cape Town (legislative) Bloemfontein (judicial) 1,221,037: 58,048,332: 42.4: 16,090: 0.713: South African rand (R) (ZAR) 12 languages: Head of State: Cyril ...
The flag reflected the Union's predecessors. The basis was the Prince's Flag (royal tricolour) of the Netherlands, with the addition of a Union Jack to represent the Cape and Natal, the former Orange Free state flag, and the former South African Republic flag. Until 1957, the flag was flown subordinate to the British Union Jack.
The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje Vrijstaat; [a] Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) [b] was an independent Boer-ruled sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.
Gallery of sovereign state flags. This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For flags of other entities, please see gallery of flags of dependent territories. Each flag is depicted as if the flagpole is positioned on the left of the flag, except for ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's President Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS leaders' meeting and visit South Africa on Aug. 21-24, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. Leaders ...
When the Orange Free State became an independent republic in February 1854, the government hoisted a red, white and blue flag. Details of the exact design have been lost, but it was presumably similar to the contemporary flag of the Netherlands. It was evidently intended as a temporary flag, as the first State President, Josias Philip Hoffman ...
The flag of South Africa was designed in March 1994 and adopted on 27 April 1994, during South Africa 's 1994 general election, to replace the previous flag used from 1928–1994 . The flag has horizontal bands of red (on the top) and blue (on the bottom), of equal width, separated by a central green band which splits into a horizontal "Y ...