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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.
South American coati
South American coati (Nasua nasua), also ring-tailed or brown-nosed coati, quati: a diurnal procyonid of South American forests; females form bands up to 30, adult males are solitary; IUCN Least Concern.
South American Cup (alpine skiing)
The South American Cup is a FIS alpine skiing continental cup held each Southern Hemisphere winter in Argentina and Chile, run since 1989 as a development rung toward the World Cup.
South American fur seal
The South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis), called lobo fino in Spanish, is an eared seal breeding from central Peru to southern Brazil, including the Falkland Islands.
South American lungfish
South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), sole South American member of Lepidosirenidae, an obligate air-breathing Amazon basin fish; first living lungfish named (1837), owner of the largest animal genome sequenced, about 91 Gb.
South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate carrying South America and the western South Atlantic floor, with subduction of the Nazca Plate along its western margin.
South American Rally Championship
The South American Rally Championship, formally the FIA CODASUR Rally Championship, is an all-gravel FIA regional rally series organized by Codasur and held since 1997.
South American sea lion
South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens, also Otaria byronia), a sexually dimorphic otariid breeding from Peru to Brazil and the Falklands; IUCN Least Concern, recovering slowly after 18th-20th century overharvesting, threatened by fisheries conflict and H5N1.
South American tapir
South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), also called lowland or Brazilian tapir, anta or danta: the largest land mammal native to South America, 150-250 kg, ranging east of the Andes from Venezuela to northern Argentina; Vulnerable, key seed disperser of tropical forests.
South American Tornado Alley
South American Tornado Alley, or Pasillo de los Tornados, is the region of southeastern South America spanning Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil most prone to tornadoes outside North America.
South American Yard
South American Yard: South American animal exhibit at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, also called the Else Arnold South American Yard, dedicated 30 November 1997; houses South American tapir, capybara, collared peccary, and Patagonian mara.
South Andaman Island
South Andaman Island, third largest island of India's Andaman group (1,348 km²), site of Port Blair (Sri Vijaya Puram), the 1858 penal settlement, the Cellular Jail, and the South Andaman district capital.
South Andean Pacific Slopes
South Andean Pacific Slopes, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 341, covers central Chile's Pacific coastal drainages from Quebrada Seca to the Río Imperial, with short Andean rivers, endemic fishes like Nematogenys inermis, and matorral to Valdivian forests.
South Aral Sea
South Aral Sea (Large Aral), the Uzbekistan portion of the Aral Sea, split from the North Aral Sea by 1987 and nearly dried after Soviet diversion of the Amu Darya; its eastern basin is desiccated, leaving a hypersaline western strip.
South Arcade
South Arcade: Oxford, England alternative rock quartet (Harmony Cavelle, Harry Winks, Ollie Green, Cody Jones) formed 2021; self-described Y2K-core act blending 2000s pop-punk and nu-metal; breakout TikTok single DANGER; EPs 2005 (2024) and PLAY! (2025) on BKM/LAB Records.
South Arne Oil and Gas Field
South Arne, also known as Syd Arne, is an oil and gas field in the Danish sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1969 and producing since 1999.
South Asia
South Asia: the UN-defined subregion of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; monsoon-dependent, fastest-growing yet least trade-integrated and most climate-vulnerable EMDE region.
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
SAARC, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, is an eight-member intergovernmental body founded in Dhaka in 1985 with its Secretariat in Kathmandu, promoting South Asian economic and social cooperation under unanimity rules.
South Asian diaspora
South Asian diaspora: people of South Asian origin living outside India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and neighboring countries; one of the world's largest diasporas, shaped by indenture (1830s–1917), the 1947 Partition, and postwar flows to the Gulf, North America, and Europe.
South Asian Free Trade Area
The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is a SAARC free trade agreement signed in Islamabad on 6 January 2004 and in force from 1 January 2006, covering eight members with a phased tariff liberalization program, sensitive lists, and rules of origin.
South Asian Games
South Asian Games (formerly SAF Games), regional multi-sport event for South Asia run by the South Asia Olympic Council; first held Kathmandu 1984 with seven nations, renamed 2004; 14th edition in Pakistan April 2027.
South Asian river dolphin
South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica), also called susu or bhulan, a blind, echolocating freshwater cetacean of the Indus and Ganges systems; split in 2021 into two Endangered species, Platanista gangetica and Platanista minor.