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South Africa and weapons of mass destruction
South Africa was the first country to dismantle its entire nuclear, chemical, and ballistic weapons programs after building six gun-type fission devices, retaining civilian nuclear status.
South Africa national cricket team
South Africa national cricket team, the Proteas: men's side run by Cricket South Africa. Third Test nation (1889), ICC-banned 1970-1991 for apartheid, 1998 Knockout and 2025 World Test Championship winner.
South Africa national rugby union team
Springboks, South Africa's national rugby union team (Springbokke), four-time Rugby World Cup champions (1995, 2007, 2019, 2023) with a 64.4% overall Test win rate, governed by SA Rugby and famed for the 1995 Mandela moment and forward-dominated tactics.
South Africa national soccer team
South Africa national soccer team, nicknamed Bafana Bafana, men's national football team of South Africa under SAFA. Readmitted to FIFA in 1992 after apartheid isolation; won 1996 AFCON; World Cups 1998, 2002, 2010, 2026.
South Africa SACAA Part 101
South Africa SACAA Part 101 is the set of national regulations governing drone operation in South Africa, administered by the South African Civil Aviation Authority since 2015.
South Africa's genocide case against Israel
South Africa v. Israel, ICJ case 192, filed 29 December 2023, alleges Israel violated the Genocide Convention in Gaza; the Court issued three binding provisional measures orders (January, March, May 2024) without ordering a ceasefire; merits proceedings continue.
South African Air Force
The South African Air Force (SAAF), founded 1 February 1920 as the world's second oldest independent air force, is the air branch of the SANDF, flying Gripens and Rooivalk helicopters while facing severe underfunding.
South African Airways
South African Airways (SAA) is a state-owned flag carrier founded in 1934 in Johannesburg. It exited business rescue in April 2021 and rebuilt its fleet.
South African Airways Flight 295
South African Airways Flight 295, the Helderberg (ZS-SAS), a Boeing 747-244B Combi lost to an in-flight cargo fire near Mauritius on 28 November 1987, killing all 159 aboard; ignition source undetermined.
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.