Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Well, this is a strange country - it has three capitals, and eleven official national languages! In what country can we celebrate Mandela Day on July 18?"
...Most countries manage to get by with one capital city, but in South Africa the legislature is in Cape Town, the executive capital is Pretoria, and the judicial capital is in Bloemfontein; and none of these is the largest city - that is Johannesburg. The national languages include English and Afrikaans, left over from colonial times, and nine of the tribal languages which are the most widely spoken and understood. There are at least a dozen more semi-official languages. Mandela Day celebrates the efforts of Nelson Mandela to bring an end to the policy of apartheid. Celebrated on his birthday, an interesting part of the observance is the idea that everyone should spend 67 minutes during the day in service to the local community or to some charity. The number of minutes is the same as the number of years during which Mandela was politically active.
