Events

• Jan van Riebeeck
  Jan van Riebeeck
  Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck was a Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town.-Biography:...
  
  
• History of Cape Colony
  History of Cape Colony
  The written history of Cape Colony South Africa began when Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese navigator, discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India. The Portuguese, attracted by the riches of Asia, made no...
  
  
• Xhosa Wars
  Xhosa wars
  The Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa people and European settlers, from 1779 to 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa....
  
  
• Mfecane
  Mfecane
  Mfecane , also known by the Sesotho name Difaqane or Lifaqane, was a period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous tribes in southern Africa during the period between 1815 to about 1840....
  
  
• Great Trek
  Great Trek
  The Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration away from British control in the Cape Colony during the 1830s and 1840s by Boers . The migrants were descended from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands, northwest Germany and French Huguenots...
  
  
• Zulu War (see also Anglo-Zulu War
  Anglo-Zulu War
  The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.Following the imperialist scheme by which Lord Carnarvon had successfully brought about federation in Canada, it was thought that a similar plan might succeed with the various African kingdoms, tribal areas and...
  
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• Boer Wars
  • Pretoria Convention
    Pretoria Convention
    The Pretoria Convention was the peace treaty that ended the First Boer War between the Transvaal Boers and the United Kingdom. The treaty was signed in Pretoria on 3 August, 1881, but was subject to ratification by the Volksraad within 3 months from the date of signature...
    
    
• History of apartheid
  History of South Africa in the apartheid era
  Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by the National Party governments of South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained...
  
  
  • Sharpeville massacre
    Sharpeville massacre
    The Sharpeville Massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in the Transvaal . After a day of demonstrations, at which a crowd of black protesters far outnumbered the police, the South African police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69...
    
    
  • Rivonia Trial
    Rivonia Trial
    The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system.-Origins:...
    
    
  • Crime of Apartheid Convention (1973)
    Crime of apartheid
    The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other...
    
    
  • Other events related to apartheid
• South African Border War
  South African Border War
  The South African Border War, commonly referred to as the Angolan Bush War in South Africa, was a conflict that took place from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces on the one side and the Angolan government, South-West Africa People's...
  
  
• Military history of South Africa
  Military history of South Africa
  The history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time. It covers civil wars and wars of aggression and of self-defense both within South Africa and against it...
  
  

Historical groups

• Azanian People's Liberation Army
  Azanian People's Liberation Army
  The Azanian People's Liberation Army was the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress in South Africa. It was originally called Poqo.-History:...
  
  
• Democratic Party (South Africa)
  Democratic Party (South Africa)
  The Democratic Party was the name of the South African political party now called the Democratic Alliance . Although the Democratic Party name dates from 1989, the party existed under other labels throughout the Apartheid years, when it was the Parliamentary opposition to the ruling National...
  
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• Dutch East India Company
  Dutch East India Company
  The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...
  
  
• National Party
  National Party (South Africa)
  The National Party is a former political party in South Africa. Founded in 1914, it was the governing party of the country from 4 June 1948 until 9 May 1994. Members of the National Party were sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a...
  
  
• Umkhonto we Sizwe
  Umkhonto we Sizwe
  Umkhonto we Sizwe , translated "Spear of the Nation," was the armed wing of the African National Congress which fought against the South African apartheid government. MK launched its first guerrilla attacks against government installations on 16 December 1961...
  
  

Places

• Bantustan
  Bantustan
  A bantustan was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa , as part of the policy of apartheid...
  
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  • Bophuthatswana
    Bophuthatswana
    Bophuthatswana , officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana was a Bantustan – an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity – and nominal parliamentary democracy in the northwestern region of South Africa...
    
    
  • Ciskei
    Ciskei
    Ciskei was a Bantustan in the south east of South Africa. It covered an area of 2,970 square miles , almost entirely surrounded by what was then the Cape Province, and possessed a small coastline along the shore of the Indian Ocean....
    
    
  • QwaQwa
    QwaQwa
    QwaQwa was a Bantustan, or homeland, in the eastern part of South Africa. It encompassed a very small region of in the east of the former South African province of Orange Free State, bordering Lesotho. Its capital was Phuthaditjhaba...
    
    
  • Transkei
    Transkei
    The Transkei , officially the Republic of Transkei , was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and nominal parliamentary democracy in the southeastern region of South Africa...
    
    
• Cape Colony
  Cape Colony
  The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...
  
  
  • History of Cape Colony
    History of Cape Colony
    The written history of Cape Colony South Africa began when Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese navigator, discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India. The Portuguese, attracted by the riches of Asia, made no...
    
    
• Robben Island
  Robben Island
  Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...
  
  

Landmarks

• Karoo
  Karoo
  The Karoo is a semi-desert region of South Africa. It has two main sub-regions - the Great Karoo in the north and the Little Karoo in the south. The 'High' Karoo is one of the distinct physiographic provinces of the larger South African Platform division.-Great Karoo:The Great Karoo has an area of...
  
  
• Table Mountain
  Table Mountain
  Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is featured in the flag of Cape Town and other local government insignia. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top...
  
  
• Drakensberg
  Drakensberg
  The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in Southern Africa, rising to in height. In Zulu, it is referred to as uKhahlamba , and in Sesotho as Maluti...
  
  
• Rivers of South Africa
• Protected areas of South Africa

Misc

• Union of South Africa
  Union of South Africa
  The Union of South Africa is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State...
  
  
• South African Republic
  South African Republic
  The South African Republic , often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer-ruled country in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. Not to be confused with the present-day Republic of South Africa, it occupied the area later known as the South African...
  
  
• South African History Project
  South African History Project
  The South African History Project was established and initiated by Professor Kader Asmal, former Minister of Education in South Africa...
  
  
• History of South African wine
  History of South African wine
  The early history of South African wine can be traced to the founding of a supply station at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company. Jan van Riebeeck was given the task of managing the station and planting vineyards to produce wine and grapes; that could be used to ward off scurvy...
  
  
• Apartheid
  History of South Africa in the apartheid era
  Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by the National Party governments of South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained...
  
  
  • Immorality Act
    Immorality Act
    Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people and people of other races. The first Immorality Act, of 1927, prohibited sex between whites and blacks, until amended in 1950 to prohibit sex...
    
    

• Voortrekkers
  Voortrekkers
  The Voortrekkers were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony moving into the interior of what is now South Africa...
  
  

• Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
  Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
  The Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was the representative of the British and later South African Crown in the Union of South Africa between 31 May 1910 and 31 May 1961...
  
  

• Concentration camp

Offices

• Parliament of South Africa
  Parliament of South Africa
  The Parliament of South Africa is South Africa's legislature and under the country's current Constitution is composed of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces....
  
  
• President of South Africa
  President of South Africa
  The President of the Republic of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa's Constitution. From 1961 to 1994, the head of state was called the State President....
  
  
• State President of South Africa
  State President of South Africa
  State President, or Staatspresident in Afrikaans, was the title of South Africa's head of state from 1961 to 1994. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1961, and Queen Elizabeth II ceased to be head of state...
  
  
• List of Presidents of South Africa
• List of Prime Ministers of South Africa

Misc

• Flag of South Africa
  Flag of South Africa
  The current flag of the Republic of South Africa was adopted on 27 April 1994, at the beginning of the 1994 general election, to replace the flag that had been used since 1928...
  
  
• Coat of Arms of South Africa
  Coat of arms of South Africa
  The present coat of arms of South Africa was introducedon Freedom Day April 27, 2000. It replaced the earlier national arms, which had been in use since 1910. The motto ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke is written in the Khoisan language of the ǀXam people and translates literally to "diverse people unite"...
  
  
• The national anthem of South Africa
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Boeremag
  Boeremag
  The Boeremag is a South African right-wing activism group with white separatist aims and is accused of planning to overthrow the ruling African National Congress government and to reinstate a new Boer administered republic reminiscent of the era when Boers administered independent republics...
  
  

Culture

• Afrikaner Calvinism
  Afrikaner Calvinism
  Afrikaner Calvinism is, according to theory, a unique cultural development that combined the Calvinist religion with the political aspirations of the white Afrikaans speaking people of South Africa....
  
  
• Culture of South Africa
  Culture of South Africa
  South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. Therefore, there is no single culture of South Africa.The South African black majority still has a substantial number of rural inhabitants who lead largely impoverished lives...
  
  

• Cinema of South Africa
  Cinema of South Africa
  The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa.-List of South African films:* Sarie Marais * Die kaskenades van Dr...
  
  
• Dance
  Dance
  Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
  
  
• Khoikhoi mythology
  Khoikhoi mythology
  This is a summary of some of the gods, heroes and monsters that appear in the beliefs of the Khoikhoi, an ethnic group from southern Africa.- Gods and heroes :...
  
  
• Kwaito
  Kwaito
  Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 1990s. It is a variant of house music featuring the use of African sounds and samples. Typically at a slower tempo range than other styles of house music, Kwaito often contains catchy melodic and percussive loop samples,...
  
  
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won multiple awards, including three Grammy Awards...
  
  
• List of Afrikaans language poets
• List of radio stations in South Africa
• List of South African artists
• List of South African poets
• Nguni stick fighting
  Nguni stick fighting
  Nguni stick fighting is a martial art traditionally practiced by teenage Nguni herdboys in South Africa. Each combatant is armed with two long sticks, one of which is used for defense and the other for offense...
  
  
• Popular Culture
  Popular culture
  Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...
  
  
• South African Broadcasting Corporation
  South African Broadcasting Corporation
  The South African Broadcasting Corporation is the state-owned broadcaster in South Africa and provides 18 radio stations as well as 3 television broadcasts to the general public.-Early years:Radio broadcasting began in South Africa in 1923...
  
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• South African heraldry
  South African heraldry
  South African heraldry reaches back for more than 350 years, inheriting European heraldic traditions. Arms are borne by individuals, official bodies, local authorities, military units, and by a wide variety of organisations...
  
  
• South African Scout Association
  South African Scout Association
  The South African Scout Association is the World Organization of the Scout Movement recognized Scouting association in South Africa. Scouting began in the United Kingdom in 1907 through the efforts of Robert Baden-Powell and rapidly spread to South Africa, with the first Scout troops appearing in...
  
  
• Television in South Africa
  Television in South Africa
  Television in South Africa was first introduced in 1976. Despite being the most economically advanced country in Africa, South Africa was relatively late in introducing television broadcasting to its population.- Opposition to introduction :...
  
  
• South African wine
  South African wine
  South African wine has a history dating back to 1659, and at one time Constantia was considered one of the greatest wines in the world. Access to international markets has unleashed a burst of new energy and new investment. Production is concentrated around Cape Town, with major vineyard and...
  
  

Language and ethnicity

• Demographics of South Africa
  Demographics of South Africa
  The demographics of South Africa encompasses about 50 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. The last census was held in 2001 and the next will be in 2011....
  
  
• Languages of South Africa
  Languages of South Africa
  South Africa has eleven official languages: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Fewer than one percent of South Africans speak a first language other than an official one. Most South Africans can speak more than one language. Dutch and...
  
  

• Afrikaans language
• English language
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   (South African English
  South African English
  The term South African English is applied to the first-language dialects of English spoken by South Africans, with the L1 English variety spoken by Zimbabweans, Zambians and Namibians, being recognised as offshoots.There is some social and regional variation within South African English...
  
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• Nguni
  Nguni
  The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa by the Nguni people. Nguni languages include Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, Hlubi, Phuthi and Ndebele . The appellation "Nguni" derives from the Nguni cattle type...
  
  
  • Southern Ndebele language
    Southern Ndebele language
    The Southern Ndebele language is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the amaNdebele . There are two dialects of Southern Ndebele in South Africa:* the Northern Transvaal Ndebele or Nrebele...
    
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  • Swati language
    Swati language
    The Swazi or Swati language is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Swaziland and South Africa by the Swazi people. The number of speakers is estimated to be in the region of 3 million. The language is taught in Swaziland and some South African schools in Mpumalanga and KaNgwane areas...
    
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  • Xhosa language
    Xhosa language
    Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said...
    
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  • Zulu language
    Zulu language
    Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population...
    
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• Sotho languages
  Sotho languages
  The Sotho–Tswana languages are a group of closely related Southern Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa that include:*Tswana , Sotho , Northern Sotho *Lozi...
  
  
  • Sotho language (Sesotho)
  • Northern Sotho language
    Northern Sotho language
    Northern Sotho , also inaccurately known by the name of a major dialect, Pedi or sePedi, is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people — in the South African provinces of Gauteng,...
    
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  • Tswana language
    Tswana language
    Tswana or Setswana is a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 4.5 million people. It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S , and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi...
    
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• Venda language
  Venda language
  Venda, also known as or , is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, but about 10% of speakers live in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is related to Kalanga which is spoken in Botswana...
  
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• Tsonga language
  Tsonga language
  The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan.- Classification :Tsonga belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger–Congo languages...
  
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• !Xu language

• Bantu languages
  Bantu languages
  The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...
  
  
• Khoisan languages
  Khoisan languages
  The Khoisan languages are the click languages of Africa which do not belong to other language families. They include languages indigenous to southern and eastern Africa, though some, such as the Khoi languages, appear to have moved to their current locations not long before the Bantu expansion...
  
  

• Afrikaner
  Afrikaner
  Afrikaners are an ethnic group in Southern Africa descended from almost equal numbers of Dutch, French and German settlers whose native tongue is Afrikaans: a Germanic language which derives primarily from 17th century Dutch, and a variety of other languages.-Related ethno-linguistic groups:The...
  
  
• Basotho
  Basotho
  The ancestors of the Sotho people have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century. The Sotho nation emerged from the accomplished diplomacy of Moshoeshoe I who gathered together disparate clans of Sotho–Tswana origin that had dispersed across southern Africa in the early 19th century...
  
  
  • Bakoena
    Bakoena
    Bakoena, or Bakwena, is one of the three main Basotho tribes, who speak Sesotho, the other two being Batlokoa and Bataung."Koena" is a Sesotho word meaning "crocodile", and this animal is their totem....
    
    
  • Bataung
    Bataung
    Bataung is one of the three main Basotho tribes, who speak Sesotho, the other two being Batlokwa and Bakoena."Tau" is a Sesotho word meaning "lion", and this animal is their totem....
    
    
  • Batlokoa
    Batlokoa
    The term Batlokwa refers to several Sotho-Tswana communities that reside in Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa, comprising both the followings of Tlokwa chiefs and more particularly members of clans identified as Tlokwa, or to individuals who identify themselves as of Tlokwa descent. Members of...
    
    
• Coloured
  Coloured
  In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers to an heterogenous ethnic group who possess ancestry from Europe, various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, West Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaya, India, Mozambique,...
  
  
  • Cape Coloureds
    Cape Coloureds
    The Cape Coloureds form a minority group within South Africa, however they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape. They are generally bilingual, however subsets within the group can be exclusively Afrikaans speakers, whereas others primarily speak English...
    
    
• Jewish South Africans
• Khoisan
  Khoisan
  Khoisan is a unifying name for two ethnic groups of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region. Culturally, the Khoisan are divided into the foraging San and the pastoral Khoi...
  
  
• Venda
  Venda
  Venda was a bantustan in northern South Africa, now part of Limpopo province. It was founded as a homeland for the Venda people, speakers of the Venda language. It bordered modern Zimbabwe and South Africa, and is now part of Limpopo in South Africa....
  
  
• Xhosa people
• Zulu people

• Click consonant
  Click consonant
  Clicks are speech sounds found as consonants in many languages of southern Africa, and in three languages of East Africa. Examples of these sounds familiar to English speakers are the tsk! tsk! or tut-tut used to express disapproval or pity, the tchick! used to spur on a horse, and the...
  
  

Geography

• Geography of South Africa
  Geography of South Africa
  South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then north to the border with Mozambique on the Indian Ocean...
  
  

• List of cities in South Africa
• Provinces of South Africa
  Provinces of South Africa
  South Africa is currently divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, also known as Bantustans, were reintegrated and the four existing provinces were divided into nine. The twelfth, thirteenth and sixteenth amendments to the constitution...
  
  
• National parks
• List of rivers of Africa
• Mountain Passes of South Africa
  Mountain Passes of South Africa
  - Publicly accessible road passes by Province :*Eastern Cape Passes*Western Cape Passes*Northern Cape Passes*Mpumalanga Passes*KwaZulu Natal Passes*Limpopo Province Passes*Northwest Province Passes*Gauteng Passes*Free State Passes...
  
  

• Cape of Good Hope
  Cape of Good Hope
  The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.There is a misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, because it was once believed to be the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In fact, the...
  
  
• Clanwilliam
• Drakensberg
  Drakensberg
  The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in Southern Africa, rising to in height. In Zulu, it is referred to as uKhahlamba , and in Sesotho as Maluti...
  
  
• Kalahari Desert
  Kalahari Desert
  The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa extending , covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa, as semi-desert, with huge tracts of excellent grazing after good rains. The Kalahari supports more animals and plants than a true desert...
  
  
• Table Mountain
• Tugela Falls
  Tugela Falls
  Tugela Falls is the world's second highest waterfall. The total drop in five free-leaping falls is . They are located in the Drakensberg in the Royal Natal National Park in KwaZulu-Natal Province, Republic of South Africa. They are easily viewed after a heavy rain from the main travel road into...
  
  
• Soweto
  Soweto
  Soweto is a lower-class-populated urban area of the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships...
  
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• Fish River
• Orange River
  Orange River
  The Orange River , Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  
• Tugela River
  Tugela River
  The Tugela River is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The river originates in the Drakensberg Mountains, Mont-aux-Sources, and plunges 947 metres down the Tugela Falls...
  
  

• Marine geology of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay
  Marine geology of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay
  - Introduction :Knowledge of the geological history and structure of the region can be useful when , as an understanding of the subject can allow a better prediction of conditions and environment to be expected during the dive....
  
  

Persons

• Neil Aggett
  Neil Aggett
  Neil Aggett was a white South African trade union leader and labour activist who died whilst in detention after being arrested by the South African Security Police.-Life and Death:...
  
  
• Tatamkulu Afrika
  Tatamkulu Afrika
  Tatamkulu Afrika was a South African poet and writer.-Writing:...
  
  
• Autshumao
• Steve Biko
  Steve Biko
  Stephen Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the...
  
  
• Pieter Willem Botha
  Pieter Willem Botha
  Pieter Willem Botha , commonly known as "P. W." and Die Groot Krokodil , was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989.First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was for eleven years head of the Afrikaner National Party and the...
  
  
• J. M. Coetzee
• Mahatma Gandhi
  Mahatma Gandhi
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
  
  
• Frederik Willem de Klerk
  Frederik Willem de Klerk
  Frederik Willem de Klerk , often known as F. W. de Klerk, is the former seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994...
  
  
• Krotoa
  Krotoa
  Krotoa, or Eva, born circa 1642, was the niece of Autshumato, a Khoi leader and trader. When she was young, she worked in the household of Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Cape colony...
  
  
• Paul Kruger
  Paul Kruger
  Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger , better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul was State President of the South African Republic...
  
  
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is a South African politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress Women's League. She is currently a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee...
  
  
• Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
  
  
• Mark Mathabane
  Mark Mathabane
  Mark Mathabane is an author, lecturer, and a former collegiate tennis player and college professor.- Early life in South Africa :...
  
  
• Govan Mbeki
  Govan Mbeki
  Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki was a South African politician, and father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki...
  
  
• Thabo Mbeki
  Thabo Mbeki
  Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served two terms as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008. He is also the brother of Moeletsi Mbeki...
  
  
• Lilian Ngoyi
  Lilian Ngoyi
  Lillian Masediba Ngoyi "Ma Ngoyi", , was a South African anti-apartheid activist. She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of the African National Congress, and helped launch the Federation of South African Women.Ngoyi joined the ANC Women's League in 1952; she was at that stage a...
  
  
• Raymond Mhlaba
  Raymond Mhlaba
  Raymond Mhlaba was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress .Mhlaba spent 25 years of his life in prison. Well known for being sentenced, along with Nelson Mandela, in the Rivonia Trial, he was an active member of the ANC and the South African Communist Party all his...
  
  
• Harry Oppenheimer
  Harry Oppenheimer
  Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was a prominent South African businessman and one of the world's richest men...
  
  
• Jan van Riebeeck
  Jan van Riebeeck
  Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck was a Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shaka
  Shaka
  Shaka kaSenzangakhona , also known as Shaka Zulu , was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom....
  
  
• Walter Sisulu
  Walter Sisulu
  Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress .-Family and Education:...
  
  
• J.G. Strijdom
• Oliver Tambo
  Oliver Tambo
  Oliver Reginald Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress .-Biography:Oliver Tambo was born in Bizana in eastern Pondoland in what is now Eastern Cape...
  
  
• Desmond Tutu
  Desmond Tutu
  Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
  
  
• B.J. Vorster
  B.J. Vorster
  Balthazar Johannes Vorster , better known as John Vorster, served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and as the fourth State President of South Africa from 1978 to 1979...
  
  

Flora

• Fynbos
  Fynbos
  Fynbos is the natural shrubland or heathland vegetation occurring in a small belt of the Western Cape of South Africa, mainly in winter rainfall coastal and mountainous areas with a Mediterranean climate...
  
  
  • King protea
    King protea
    The King Protea is a flowering plant. It is a distinctive Protea, having the largest flower head in the genus. The species is also known as Giant Protea, Honeypot or King Sugar Bush...
    
    
• Veld
  Veld
  The term Veld refers primarily to the wide open rural spaces of South Africa or southern Africa and in particular to certain flatter areas or districts covered in grass or low scrub...
  
  
• Clanwilliam-Cedar
  Widdringtonia
  Widdringtonia is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae . The name was apparently Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher's way of honouring an early expert on the coniferous forests of Spain, Capt. Samuel Edward Cook or Widdrington...
  
  
• Real Yellowwood, the national tree
• Rooibos
  Rooibos
  Rooibos is a broom-like member of the legume family of plants growing in South Africa's fynbos.The generic name comes from the plant Calicotome villosa, aspalathos in Greek. This plant has very similar growth and flowers to the redbush...
  
  
• List of Southern African indigenous trees

Fauna

• Blue Crane
  Blue Crane
  The Blue Crane , also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa. It is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family. It is 100–120 cm tall and weighs 4.0–6.2 kg...
  
   (national bird)
• Oryx
  Oryx
  Oryx is one of four large antelope species of the genus Oryx. Three of the species are native to arid parts of Africa, with a fourth native to the Arabian Peninsula. Their pelage is pale with contrasing dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight...
  
  
• Bontebok
  Bontebok
  The Bontebok is an antelope found in South Africa and Lesotho. The Bontebok has two subspecies; the endangered Bontebok , occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the Blesbok occurring in the highveld.The Bontebok stands 80 to 100 cm at the shoulder and...
  
   and antelope
  Antelope
  Antelope is a term referring to many even-toed ungulate species indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelopes comprise a miscellaneous group within the family Bovidae, encompassing those old-world species that are neither cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, nor goats...
  
   in general.
• Quagga
  Quagga
  The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only...
  
  

Institutions & Groups

• Pollsmoor
• Treatment Action Campaign
  Treatment Action Campaign
  The Treatment Action Campaign is a South African AIDS activist organization which was founded by the HIV-positive activist Zackie Achmat in 1998. TAC is rooted in the experiences, direct action tactics and anti-apartheid background of its founder...
  
  
• South African Council for the Architectural Profession
  South African Council for the Architectural Profession
  The South African Council for the Architectural Profession is a professional organization for the architectural community in South Africa. It was establishedIts aim is to maintain the standard of education given to architects at technikons and universities through the granting of professional...
  
  
• South African Heritage Resource Agency
• South African Human Rights Commission‎

Sports

• Springbok Rugby Team
• Soaring Society of South Africa
  Soaring Society of South Africa
  The Soaring Society of South Africa is the body to which you must belong, as stipulated in law by the South African Civil Aviation Authority , to pursue the sport of gliding in South Africa. It is affiliated to the Aeroclub of South Africa which in turn represents all the sporting bodies at the CAA...
  
  
• South African Chess Championship
  South African Chess Championship
  The first South African Chess Championship was organised in 1892 by the Cape Town Chess Club. Nowadays the Championship is organised by Chess South Africa , the governing body of chess in South Africa. The tournament is normally held every two years...
  
  
• South African Football Association
  South African Football Association
  The South African Football Association or SAFA is the governing body of football in South Africa.-History:The South African Football Association was founded on 8 December, 1991, the culmination of a long unity process that was to rid the sport in South Africa of all its past racial division.Four...
  
  
• 2010 FIFA World Cup
  2010 FIFA World Cup
  The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...
  
  

Companies

• Anglo American
• BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
  
  
• Eskom
  Eskom
  Eskom is a South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as the Electricity Supply Commission by the government of South Africa in terms of the Electricity Act . It was also known by its Afrikaans name Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie . The two acronyms were combined in 1986 and...
  
  
• Etruscan Resources
  Etruscan Resources
  Endeavour Mining Corporation is a mining company based in Nova Scotia, in Canada, that operates gold and diamond mines in Africa.Etruscan mines gold and diamonds in the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Niger...
  
  
• Kumba Resources
  Kumba Resources
  Exxaro Resources is a large coal and heavy minerals mining company in South Africa. It is also the largest South African based mining company in the country. The company operates facilities and offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia.-External links:******...
  
  
• List of radio stations in South Africa
• Mvelaphanda Group
  Mvelaphanda Group
  Mvelaphanda Group is a company in South Africa that was founded by Tokyo Sexwale, a compatriot of Nelson Mandela. The group was formed in 2003/4 by the merger of Mvelaphanda Holdings and Rebserve. Mvelaphanda Holdings is active in the fields of financial services, healthcare, mining, general...
  
  
• Richards Bay Minerals
  Richards Bay Minerals
  Richards Bay Minerals is a South African mining company. RBM's principal product is titanium dioxide in the form of an 85% pure titanium dioxide slag; the company also produces the higher-purity 95% titanium dioxide product rutile as well as pig iron and zircon.The company's principal operations...
  
   RBM
• South African Airways
  South African Airways
  South African Airways is the national flag carrier and largest airline of South Africa, with headquarters in Airways Park on the grounds of OR Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. The airline flies to 36 destinations worldwide from its hub at OR Tambo International...
  
   (SAA)
• Telkom (South Africa)
• Transnet
  Transnet
  Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African rail, port and pipeline company, headquartered in the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg. It was formed as a limited company on April 1, 1990. A majority of the company's stock is owned by the Department of Public Enterprises, or DPE, of the South African...
  
  
  • Blue Train
    Blue Train
    Blue Train may refer to:In rail:* Blue Train , a South African luxury train* Blue Train , the generic name for sleeping car trains in Japan...
    
    
  • Freightdynamics
    Freightdynamics
    Freightdynamics is a subsidiary of South Africa's state-owned transport giant Transnet.The company operates four main terminals: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban....
    
    
  • Petronet
    Petronet
    Transnet Pipelines, a subsidiary of Transnet, is the principal operator of South Africa's fuel pipeline system. It is responsible for over of pipelines. It is responsible for petroleum storage and pipeline maintenance. Transnet Pipelines works with petrols, diesel fuel, jet fuel, crude oil and...
    
    
  • Protekon
    Protekon
    Protekon performs maintenance and development services for the ports, railways and terminals of South Africa's state-owned transportation giant Transnet. It is similar in function to the company Transwerk, which performs mainenance and development for the rolling stock of Transnet's railways...
    
    
  • Shosholoza Meyl
    Shosholoza Meyl
    Shosholoza Meyl is a division of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa that operates long-distance passenger rail services. It operates various train routes across South Africa, carrying approximately 4 million passengers annually...
    
    
  • South African Port Operations
    South African Port Operations
    SAPO was the old name for what is now Transnet Port Terminals, which operates 13 terminals in 6 South African ports. It is the port management division of Transnet, the South African transport giant.-Operations:List of ports:*Cape Town...
    
     SAPO
  • Spoornet
    Spoornet
    Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet. It was part of 'South African Railways and Harbours', a state-controlled organisation that employed hundreds of thousands of people for decades from the first half of the 20th century and was widely...
    
    
  • Transwerk
    Transwerk
    Transwerk, since renamed to Transnet Rail Engineering, is a subsidiary of Transnet whose business it is to keep South Africa's trains rolling. According to the Operational Report at Transnet, Transwerk's responsibility includes "the maintenance, upgrade and manufacture of locomotives, wagons,...
    
    

Misc.

• Impi Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• Krugerrand
  Krugerrand
  The Krugerrand is a South African gold coin, first minted in 1967 to help market South African gold. The coin, produced by the South African Mint, proved popular and by 1980 the Krugerrand accounted for 90% of the gold coin market. The name itself is a compound of Kruger and rand, the South...
  
  
• Iron ore in Africa
  Iron ore in Africa
  Iron ore production in Africa is dominated by South Africa, Mauritania and Algeria; Zimbabwe and Morocco produce ore for use within the country. Many countries possess iron ore deposits that are as yet unmined...
  
  
• Platinum in Africa
  Platinum in Africa
  Platinum, and platinum group metals, in Africa, are produced in Zimbabwe and the Republic of South Africa. Of the multitudes of companies involved in producing platinum group metals in these two countries, these are the principal operators:...
  
  
• Pretoria Wireless Users Group
  Ptawug
  Pretoria Wireless Users Group is a South African wireless users group. It is non-profit community organization providing a Wireless community network in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa....
  
  
• Titanium in Africa
  Titanium in Africa
  Titanium mining in Africa has been beset by environmental problems due to the polluting nature of processing rutile, a principal titanium ore. Titanium production in Africa includes the following principal countries and companies.- Kenya:...
  
  
• Transportation in South Africa
• HIV/AIDS in South Africa
  HIV/AIDS in South Africa
  HIV/AIDS in South Africa is a prominent health concern because South Africa is believed to have more people with HIV/AIDS than any other country....
  
  
• Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate

See also

• Lists of country-related topics
• Metropolitan areas in South Africa