Red: South African stereotypes

There are multiple misconceptions, prejudices and, above all, stereotypes that are held about South Africa. It is for this reason that I have taken the time to identify which ones are usually the most common in order to clarify whether they are true or not.

The first of these is that South Africa is an extremely poor country. This stereotype is false, in fact, South Africa has the second best economy and the seventh highest development index in Africa, but  it is true that economic income is poorly distributed, which means that wealth remains in the hands of very few and the majority do not have good economic stability.

 Another very common stereotype is that in South Africa only "the African language" is spoken. This is completely false. In reality, there is not even a language called "African", since 23 official languages ​​coexist on this continent. Only South Africa has eleven official languages ​​and also recognizes eight non-official languages ​​as 'national languages'. Of the official languages, two are Indo-European languages: English and Afrikaans; while the other nine are languages ​​of the Bantu family. Therefore, it is the country with the largest number of official languages ​​in the world.