The Rainbow Nation

South Africa is a nation of diversity, with 50.59-million people and a variety of cultures, languages, and religious beliefs. Some 62% of the population is urbanized.

The 11 official languages are Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho saLeboa, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga.

Some 79.8% of South Africans are Christian, 15% have no religion, and 1.4% are undecided. Islam is the religion of 1.5% of South Africans, Hinduism that of 1.2%, African traditional belief 0.3%, Judaism 0.2% and other beliefs 0.6%.

South Africa is the powerhouse of Africa with the most advanced, broad-based economy on the continent; a thriving democracy; and infrastructure to match any first world country.

It has an abundance of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and the 26th largest GDP in the world.

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Beautiful South African Wedding Tradition

Worldwide weddings are full off beautiful traditions. In South Africa such traditions are also followed and is part of our own unique traditions, and one of them is the bridal bouquet and the ceremony to throw it away.

The tradition behind this is that anything worn by the bride was and is considered good luck. The bouquet is considered a sign of happiness. Another reason to throw the bouquet into the crowd by bride is to distract the crowd so that she could escape.

Watch this video taken at my daughter’s wedding on 3 March 2012.

Enjoy!