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South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. The cultures, languages and heritages of South Africa are multiple, diverse, and dynamic. South African culture is a fusion of several cultural influences.  Some of the prominent cultures of South Africa include the Khoikhoi and San culture, Zulu, Ndebele, Xhosa, and Sotho cultures among other cultures. They also have eleven official languages including English. Most of the South African population speak more than one language.  South African music is a combination of different musical styles such as jazz, pop, traditional indigenous music, religious choral music,and other forms of popular music from the United States. There is also lifela, a type of music composed by the sotho migrant workers. Dancing is also very common but not peculiar to South Africans as dancing is seen as an outlet. 

A hyena Man feeds meat to Africa's second-largest predator while crowds of spectators, paying per head, watch on in awe. These men earn a living by performing in front of large crowds. The hyena men are nomads from northern Nigeria that catch hyena pups, snakes and baboons, and then train these animals in order to take them to the city to perform. Pieter hugo They claim that it is magic that is used to bring these animals under their control. During their usual street circus, they first drum to attract a crowd and then they put their head and sometimes hands in between the jaws of the hyenas. The baboons are dressed in costumes and asked to do flips and they put their faces close to the snakes and sometimes put the head of the snake in their mouths. Apart […]