what part of the world is south africa in?
Africa
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 In South Africa , the government adopts a contingency plan drafted by apartheid @-@ era intelligence consultant Paul Redeker . It calls for the establishment of small sanctuaries , leaving large groups of survivors abandoned in special zones in order to distract the undead and allowing those within the main safe zone time to regroup and recuperate . Governments worldwide assume similar plans or relocate the populace to safer foreign territory , such as the attempted complete evacuation of the Japanese archipelago to Kamchatka . Because zombies freeze solid in severe cold , many civilians in North America flee to the wildernesses of northern Canada and the Arctic , where eleven million people die of starvation and hypothermia . It is implied that some turn to cannibalism to survive ; further interviews from other sources imply that cannibalism occurred in areas of the United States where food shortages occurred . The three remaining astronauts in the International Space Station survive the war by salvaging supplies from the abandoned Chinese space station and maintain some military and civilian satellites using an orbital fuel station . A surviving member of the ISS crew describes " mega " swarms of zombies on the American Great Plains and Central Asia , and how the crisis affected Earth 's atmosphere . 

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 South Africa , 1899 – 1902 ( inherited ) . 

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 Countries conspicuously absent were Spain , South Africa , the People 's Republic of China , and many South American countries . 

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 Africa is home to a large number of language families , the largest of which is the Niger @-@ Congo language family , which includes such languages as Swahili , Shona , and Yoruba . Speakers of the Niger @-@ Congo languages account for 6 @.@ 9 % of the world 's population . A similar number of people speak the Afroasiatic languages , which include the populous Semitic languages such as Arabic , Hebrew language , and the languages of the Sahara region , such as the Berber languages and Hausa . 

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 New Zealand ranks 8th in the Center for Global Development 's 2012 Commitment to Development Index , which ranks the world 's most developed countries on their dedication to policies that benefit poorer nations . New Zealand is considered the fourth most peaceful country in the world according to the 2014 Global Peace Index . 
