Saut Afrika

Saut Afrika

sovereign state, country

Part of	Southern Africa
Inception	31 May 1910
Participant in	BASIC countries
Demonym	Suid-Afrikaner, South African, Sud-africaine, Sud-africain
Anthem	national anthem of Mzansi
Culture	culture of South Africa
Motto	Unity in Diversity
Motto text	ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke, Ex Unitate Vires, Inspiring new ways, Undod drwy Amrywiaeth
Continent	Afrika
Kontri	Saut Afrika
Capital	Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town
Located in time zone	UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, Africa/Johannesburg
Located in or next to body of water	South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean
Coordinate location	29°0′0″S 24°0′0″E
Coordinates of geographic center	28°49′0″S 24°59′30″E
Coordinates of easternmost point	26°51′32″S 32°53′27″E
Coordinates of northernmost point	22°7′40″S 29°39′30″E
Coordinates of southernmost point	34°50′5″S 20°0′0″E
Coordinates of westernmost point	28°38′0″S 16°27′15″E
Highest point	Mafadi
Lowest point	Indian Ocean
Basic form of government	parliamentary republic, representative democracy, apartheid
Office held by head of state	President of South Africa
Head of state	Cyril Ramaphosa
Office held by the head of government	President of South Africa
Head of government	Cyril Ramaphosa
Executive body	Government of South Africa
Legislative body	Parliament of South Africa
Highest judicial authority	Constitutional Court of South Africa
Central bank	South African Reserve Bank
Moni	rand
Twinned administrative body	Aisai
Driving side	left
Electrical plug type	Europlug, AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types, BS 546, IEC 60906-1
Replaces	The Apartheid Regime in South Africa
Studied by	South African studies
Official website	https://gov.za
Hashtag	SouthAfrica
Top-level Internet domain	.za
Flag	flag of South África
Coat of arms	Coat of arms of South Africa
Geography of topic	Geography of South Africa
Has characteristic	free country
History of topic	history of South Africa
‎most populous urban area	Johannesburg
Railway traffic side	left
Open data portal	DataFirst Statistics South Africa, South Africa Data Portal
Economy of topic	economy of South Africa
Demographics of topic	demographics of South Africa
Commonwealth Sport country code	RSA
Mobile country code	655
Telephone country code	+27
Trunk prefix	0
Emergency phone number	112
GS1 country code	600-601
Vehicle registration plate code	ZA
Maritime identification digits	601
Unicode character	🇿🇦
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of South Africa

Saut Afrika na kontri for Afrika. Dem blow Hinglish, Afrikaans, na local languages. Di kontri get 11 official languages. E ste bai Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, na Swaziland. Di Prezident dey Cyril Ramaphosa.

Pretoria na di kapital, and Cape Town na di place wia dem parliament sabi as legislative capital,and Bloemfontein na di judicial kapital. Di city wey pipu plenti pas na Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.

History pipu do research, dem tok say south Africa don dey for 2.5 million years, human start to dey live dia like 100,000 years ago. Di first pipu wey start dey live for South Africa na di Khoisan and Bantu pipu, dem kom dia from west and central Africa. Dem form di Kingdom of Mapungubwe For north in di 13th century, and di Venda Kingdom for 17th century. Dutch pipu establish di first European settlement for Table Bay In 1652. Dem invade am for 1795, di battle wey hapun for Blaauwberg in 1806 wey lead to di british pipu to stay for south Africa. Di Mfecane, cos different formation of African Kingdom and Zulu dey part of di new kingdom. After di Second Boer War, dem kriate di Union of South Africa for 1910 after dem amalgamate Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River colonies.

For 1948 di National party impoose apartheid, which mek dem dey seperate black pipu from white pipu. After di protest by African National Congress and oda anti-apartheid bodi, wey dey insaid and outsaid di kontri, dem start di discriminatory laws for middle of 1980s. Dem do Universal elekshon for 1994, after dem kon mek am rule say na everibodi get di rait for political representation for di kontri democracy.

Sports

Sport na veri important tin for di kontri koture and di sport dem play pass na soccer, rugby union and criket. Oda sport dem wey dem dey play for di kontri na swimming, athletics, golf, boxing, mixed martial arts, tennis, ringball, field hockey, surfing and netball.

Na Soka be di most popular sport for di kontri. For 2010 South Africa host di FIFA World Cup,di 1996 African Cup of Nations, and na di kontri futbol team(Bafana Bafana) win di competishon. South Africa's men of U-20 team win di 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations. For 2022, di south africa women team win di Women's Africa Cup of Nations, after dem beat Morocco 2–1 for final. Di women's team later reach di knockout stage for 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, after dem beat Italy and draw with Argentina for beating Italy and tying with Argentina for group stage.

For 2010 Durban surfer Jordy Smith win di Billabong J-Bay Open na wetin mek am di highest persin wey sabi suf for di world. Jody Scheckter wey win 1979 One motor racing's world champion na from south Africa. Famous pipu dem for Grand Prix motorcycle racing na Brad Binder and his younger brother Darryn Binder. [Springboks on their tour of the country after winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup] South Africa don win di Rugby World Cup four times, na dem win am pass. Di first time dem win am na for 1995 Rugby World Cup. Dem kon win am again for 2007, 2019 and 2023.

See also

• Timeline of South Africa
• Outline of South Africa