The following lists events that happened during 2008inSouthAfrica. President: Thabo Mbeki (until 24 September). Kgalema Motlanthe (from 25 September)...
discrimination and even violence inSouthAfrica due to competition for scarce economic opportunities. After majority rule in 1994, contrary to expectations...
White SouthAfricans are SouthAfricans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking...
SouthAfrica, officially the Republic of SouthAfrica (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country inAfrica. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres...
The president of SouthAfrica is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of SouthAfrica. The president directs the executive branch of...
The Cabinet of SouthAfrica is the most senior level of the executive branch of the Government of SouthAfrica. It is made up of the president, the deputy...
system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed inSouthAfrica and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was...
groups inSouthAfrica have a variety of origins. The racial categories introduced by Apartheid remain ingrained inSouthAfrican society with South Africans...
The SouthAfrica national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabhokobhoko), is the country's national...
SouthAfrica's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months...
The SouthAfrica men's national soccer team represents SouthAfricain men's international soccer and it is run by the SouthAfrican Football Association...
The May 2008SouthAfrican riots was a wave of xenophobic riots starting in Alexandra, Gauteng (a neighborhood of Johannesburg) on 12 May 2008 and then...
a list of political parties inSouthAfrica. SouthAfrica is a democratic but one-party dominant state with the African National Congress as the governing...
The flag of SouthAfrica was designed in March 1994 and adopted on 27 April 1994, during SouthAfrica's 1994 general election, to replace the previous...
A list of current public holidays inSouthAfrica: In gold, the National Day The Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) states that whenever a public...
The Republic of SouthAfrica is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic. The President of SouthAfrica serves both as head of state and as head of...
Sport has a significant role inSouthAfrican culture. The three most popular mainstream sports in the country — cricket, football and rugby — reflect...
recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics SouthAfrica counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. Reports[specify] suggest that...
SouthAfrica is divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 general election, SouthAfrica's former homelands, known as Bantustans, were reintegrated...
Miss SouthAfrica2008 was held on 15 December 2008in Sun City, SouthAfrica. The winner will represent SouthAfrica at Miss Universe 2009 and Miss World...
Agriculture inSouthAfrica contributes around 5% of formal employment, relatively low compared to other parts of Africa and the number is still decreasing...
football, or soccer, as it is usually called inSouthAfrica, is the nation's most popular sport and SouthAfrica national soccer team (Bafana Bafana) is the...
SouthAfrican Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the twelfth largest Jewish community in the world, and the largest on the African...
SouthAfrica is a Christian majority nation with Islam being a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population. Islam inSouth Africa...