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South African Literary Awards
The South African Literary Awards (SALA) are annual South African literary prizes founded in 2005 by wRite associates and the Department of Arts and Culture.
South African locomotive numbering and classification
The system by which South Africa's railways assign locomotive classes and numbers, from three pre-Union railways merged into the SAR in 1910 to today's Transnet Freight Rail.
South african medical journal = suid afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
South African Medical Journal (Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, SAMJ), South Africa's oldest medical journal, first published 1884; monthly, peer-reviewed, open-access, MEDLINE-indexed, published by the South African Medical Association.
South African National Biodiversity Institute national botanical gardens
The national botanical gardens of the South African National Biodiversity Institute are ten protected gardens across seven provinces, spanning over 7,400 hectares and including Kirstenbosch, founded in 1913.
South African National Defence Force
South African National Defence Force (SANDF): the armed forces of South Africa, formed on 27 April 1994 by integrating the SADF, TBVC armies and liberation-movement forces. Ranked 40th of 145 globally in 2026 and 4th in Africa; budget strains, DRC withdrawal and Operation Prosper define its current profile.
South African National Roads Agency
The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is a South African state-owned company, established in 1998, that plans, builds, and maintains the national road network.
South African Navy
The South African Navy (SAN, Suid-Afrikaanse Vloot) is the maritime branch of the SANDF, founded as the SA Naval Service on 1 April 1922, renamed SA Navy in 1951, based at Simon's Town since 1957, and operating Valour-class frigates and Type 209 submarines.
South African pastoral
South African pastoral is writing in English and Afrikaans that depicts the farm through the pastoral tradition and its anti-pastoral counter-tradition, whose principal vehicle is the farm novel.
South African Police Service
South African Police Service (SAPS), South Africa's national police force under section 205 of the Constitution and the SAPS Act 1995; formed 1995 from eleven agencies; R120.89 billion 2025/26 budget; led by a President-appointed National Commissioner.
South African Premiership
The South African Premiership, also known as the Betway Premiership, is the top-flight professional football league of South Africa, with 16 clubs playing from August to May.
South African protest novel
The South African protest novel is a novel written to expose and oppose apartheid through realistic depiction of racial injustice, dominating the country's fiction from the 1950s through the 1980s.
South African Pulp
South African Pulp, abbreviated SA Pulp and renamed Sappi Limited in 1973, is a South African pulp and paper company founded in Johannesburg in 1936.
South African Qualifications Authority
South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), statutory oversight body of South Africa's National Qualifications Framework, established by Act 58 of 1995 and continuing under the NQF Act 67 of 2008; registers qualifications, oversees quality councils, evaluates foreign qualifications.
South African Rail Commuter Corporation
The South African Rail Commuter Corporation was a South African state-owned company that owned the country's commuter rail assets from 1990 until its absorption into PRASA in 2009.
South African rand
The South African rand (ZAR) is the currency of South Africa, issued by the South African Reserve Bank and anchor of the Common Monetary Area since 1961.
South African rebel tours
The South African rebel tours, also called the rebel tours, were seven unofficial cricket tours to apartheid South Africa between 1982 and 1990, defying the international sporting boycott.
South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme
The South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) is a competitive auction program launched in 2011 to buy renewable electricity from private producers.
South African Republic
The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), or Transvaal, was a Boer republic north of the Vaal River, recognized by Britain in 1852, annexed 1877, restored 1881, and ended by the 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging.
South African Reserve Bank
The South African Reserve Bank, also known as the Reserve Bank of South Africa, is South Africa's central bank, which conducts inflation-targeting policy and supervises banks and insurers.
South African resistance poster art
South African resistance poster art is the anti-apartheid political graphics, centered on silkscreen printing, produced between 1975 and 2000 by workshops such as the Medu Art Ensemble.
South African short story
The South African short story is the body of short prose fiction produced in South Africa in English, Afrikaans, and African languages, flourishing in the 1950s.
South African Special Forces
South African Special Forces (Recces), founded 1970 by Fritz Loots and Jan Breytenbach, are the SANDF's special operations branch: four Recce regiments, covert CCB/Barnacle units, border war service, and 1995 SANDF integration.
South African springhare
South African springhare (Pedetes capensis), also called springhaas, a large nocturnal burrowing rodent of southern Africa, family Pedetidae, that hops bipedally like a kangaroo, weighs about 3-4 kg, bears one young after roughly 78-82 days' gestation, and is IUCN Least Concern.
South African Standard Time
South African Standard Time (SAST) is the civil time standard of South Africa, two hours ahead of UTC with no daylight saving time, shared with Lesotho and Eswatini.
South African support for UNITA
South African support for UNITA was the apartheid government's military and economic aid to Jonas Savimbi's Angolan rebel movement, from 1975 until the 1988 New York Accords.
South African Weather Service
The South African Weather Service is South Africa's national meteorological service, a public entity established in 2001 that issues severe weather warnings and seasonal climate forecasts from Centurion, Gauteng.
South African wine
South African wine, made almost entirely in the Western Cape since the first Cape vintage of 1659, is known for Chenin Blanc, the Pinotage crossing, the 1973 Wine of Origin scheme, and seventh-place world production at 4.5% of global volume.
South Air
South Air is a Pakistani domestic regional airline based in Karachi, founded in 2025 and backed by SOS Group, which began scheduled ATR 72 flights on 16 July 2026.
South America
South America, or América do Sul, is the fourth-largest continent at about 17.8 million km² with roughly 418.5 million people, stretching from the Gulf of Darién to Tierra del Fuego.
South America Caribbean Drainages - Trinidad
South America Caribbean Drainages - Trinidad is FEOW freshwater ecoregion 304, a Neotropic tropical and subtropical coastal rivers unit covering Caribbean-draining rivers of northern South America plus Trinidad, with South American-derived fish fauna.