ACT Alliance

ACT in South Africa

Organisations with HQ in South Africa

• Economic Justice Network of FOCCISA
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA)

International organisations in South Africa

• Economic Justice Network of FOCCISA
• Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)

Organisations funding work in South Africa

• Anglican Overseas Aid-Australia
• Brot für Alle/Pain pour le Prochain (Bread for All) (BfA)
• Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
• Christian Aid (CA)
• Church World Service (CWS)
• Church of Sweden (CoS)
• Diakonie Austria
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
• Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
• Kerk In Actie (KIA)
• Lutheran Development Service (LDS), Swaziland
• Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The (PWRDF)
• United Church of Canada (UCC)
• World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee

About South Africa

• Population: 50.1 million (UN, 2009)
• Capitals: Pretoria (executive capital); Cape Town (legislative capital); Bloemfontein (judicial capital)
• Largest city: Johannesburg
• Area: 1.22 million sq km (470,693 sq miles)
• Major languages: 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu
• Major religion: Christianity, Islam, traditional African beliefs
• Life expectancy: 50 years (men), 53 years (women)
• Monetary unit: 1 Rand = 100 cents
• Main exports: Gold, diamonds, metals and minerals, cars, machinery
• GNI per capita: US $5,820 (World Bank, 2008)