

Johannesburg’s benchmark stock index is heading for its worst month in almost two decades, reeling from a double hit as the Iran war saps demand for emerging-market assets while plunging precious-metal prices weigh on the country’s miners.
The FTSE/JSE All Share Index was down 14% in March, on track for its biggest monthly decline since the height of the global financial crisis in September 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Fun South African Fact: Despite the country’s status as a democratic republic, the Province of KwaZulu-Natal has a monarchy, specially provided for by the Constitution. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu is the King of the Zulu Nation, has 27 kids and 6 wives and lives, literally, like a King!
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Oscar Pistorius. Not the first South African with a race problem.