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South African Army
The South African Army is the land warfare branch of the South African National Defence Force, founded as the Union Defence Forces in 1912, renamed SADF in 1957, and integrated with MK and APLA forces in 1994.
South African Border War
South African Border War (Namibian War of Independence, Angolan Bush War), 1966–1990 asymmetric conflict in Namibia and Angola between the SADF and SWAPO's PLAN, ending with Namibian independence.
South African Bureau of Standards
The South African Bureau of Standards, or SABS, is South Africa's national standardization institution. Established in 1945, it maintains about 7,500 national standards and provides certification, testing, and inspection services.
South African children's literature
South African children's literature is the body of fiction, poetry, picture books, and non-fiction for children in English, Afrikaans, and African languages since the early 1800s.
South African Class 24 2-8-4
The South African Class 24 2-8-4 of 1949 is a Cape gauge branch-line steam locomotive, the only 2-8-4 Berkshire type used in South Africa, built by the North British Locomotive Company.
South African Class 25 4-8-4
The South African Railways Class 25 4-8-4 of 1953 is a condensing steam locomotive, with ninety built by Henschel and North British to haul trains across the water-scarce Karoo.
South African Class NG G16 2-6-2+2-6-2
The South African Class NG G16 2-6-2+2-6-2, or NGG16, is a 2 ft gauge Garratt steam locomotive class built for South African Railways between 1937 and 1968.
South African Class NG6 4-4-0
The South African Class NG6 4-4-0, or Lawley, is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive built in the 1890s for the Beira Railway and bought second-hand by South African Railways around 1930.
South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party (SACP), founded 30 July 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa; Marxist-Leninist party renamed in 1953 after going underground under the Suppression of Communism Act, allied with the ANC and COSATU in the Tripartite Alliance.
South African contract law
South African contract law blends uncodified Roman-Dutch law and English common law, with good faith as an underlying value, public policy informed by the Constitution as the test for unenforceable terms, and statutes like the Consumer Protection Act protecting weaker parties.
South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions
The South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) is South Africa's legislated regulator of natural scientists, established in 1982 under the Natural Scientists Act.
South African cricket team in India in 2015–16
South Africa's 2015-16 tour of India: 4 Tests, 5 ODIs, 3 T20Is. India won the Freedom Trophy Test series 3-0; South Africa won the ODIs 3-2 and T20Is 2-0; Nagpur pitch rated poor.
South African cricket team in India in 2019–20
South Africa's 2019-20 tour of India (Gandhi-Mandela Freedom Trophy): three T20Is drawn 1-1 and three Tests lost 0-3, India's first Test sweep over South Africa; March 2020 ODI leg cancelled due to Coronavirus.
South African cricket team in India in 2025–26
South Africa in India 2025-26: men's all-format cricket tour, 14 Nov–19 Dec 2025; South Africa won Tests 2-0 (first series win in India since 2000), India won ODIs 2-1 and the T20I series.
South African cricket team in Namibia in 2026
South Africa men's white-ball tour of Namibia, August-September 2026: Bjorn Fortuin captained a young Proteas side to the FNB T20I tri-series title over Namibia and Zimbabwe, then swept Namibia 3-0 in the first bilateral ODI series between the teams at Windhoek.
South African criminal law
South African criminal law: uncodified Roman-Dutch common law crimes (murder, robbery, rape) with English-influenced procedure under the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, six liability elements, no juries since 1969, all subject to the 1996 Constitution.
South African cuisine
South African cuisine is a blended set of cuisines from Khoisan, Bantu, Dutch, Cape Malay, Indian and British traditions, with dishes like bobotie, biltong, pap and bunny chow.
South African Defence Force
The South African Defence Force (SADF), also known as the Union Defence Force, was the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 to 1994, operating out of Pretoria.
South African detective fiction
South African detective fiction is crime and detective writing set in and largely produced in South Africa, nearly absent under apartheid before expanding rapidly after the 1994 democratic transition.
South African energy crisis
The South African energy crisis is a prolonged electricity shortage managed by Eskom through rolling blackouts called load shedding, which began in 2007 and peaked in 2023.
South African English
South African English (SAfE): the varieties of English in South Africa, rooted in 1820 British settlers, with White, Black, Indian, and Afrikaans-influenced sub-varieties, distinctive raised front vowels, and Afrikaans lexical borrowing.
South African farm attacks
South African farm attacks, or plaasmoorde, are violent crimes against farmers, farmworkers, and visitors on South African farms; the official motive finding is overwhelmingly criminal rather than political.
South African financial rand
The South African financial rand was a separate exchange rate for non-resident capital transactions from 1985 to 1995, trading at a 15% to 55% discount to the commercial rand.
South African hip hop
South African hip hop, also known as SA hip hop, is South Africa's rap scene, shaped under apartheid and commercially driven by fusing rap with kwaito and amapiano.
South African Hip Hop Awards
The South African Hip Hop Awards, also known as the SA Hip Hop Awards, are an annual ceremony honoring South African hip hop, first held in 2012.
South African Indian Congress
The South African Indian Congress was the national umbrella political organization of South Africa's Indian community, founded in 1919, which led Indian resistance to segregation and apartheid.
South African Institute of International Affairs
The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is a think tank founded in 1934 and headquartered in Johannesburg, working on African governance and the G20.
South African Institution of Civil Engineering
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) is the professional body for civil engineers in South Africa, established in 1903 and recognized by the Engineering Council of South Africa.
South African Journal of African Languages
The South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL) is a peer-reviewed journal on African and Khoe-San languages and literatures, published since 1981 and co-published with NISC in association with the African Language Association of Southern Africa.
South African law of delict
South African law of delict: the Roman-Dutch-based private-law rules of civil liability. Five elements (conduct, wrongfulness, fault, causation, harm), conditio sine qua non and material contribution causation tests, and state liability under the 1957 State Liability Act.