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In the theory officially accepted today by the city, it bears the name of Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz. In another theory, the city was originally named after Retief alone, initially "Pieter Mouriets Burg" (after his given names) and transformed to its current form. Pinetown – Sir Benjamin Pine, governor of Natal
Pages in category "Surnames of African origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 381 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
English: Map of South Africa, with provinces, neighbouring countries and oceans labelled in English. Based on File:Map of South Africa with provincial borders.svg.
There are eleven official names of South Africa, [1] one in each of its 12 official languages. The number is surpassed only by India. The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English , Afrikaans , the Nguni languages ( Zulu , Xhosa , Ndebele , and Swazi ), the Sotho-Tswana languages ( Tswana , Sotho , and Pedi ), Venda ...
Name Province Remarks/new name Baardskeerdersbos: Western Cape: Babelegi: North West: Babanango: KwaZulu-Natal: Badplaas: Mpumalanga: Bailey: Eastern Cape: Bakerville
Surnames of some South Slavic groups such as Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, and Bosniaks traditionally end with the suffixes "-ić" and "-vić" (often transliterated to English and other western languages as "ic", "ich", "vic" or "vich". The v is added in the case of a name to which "-ić" is appended would otherwise end with a vowel, to avoid ...
Mzansi - South Africa (uMzantsi is Xhosa for 'south'). Invented by journalist/ editor Thami Masemola while working for the now-defunct South African youth publication Y magazine in 1999. Taken from the isiXhosa words 'Mzantsi Africa', meaning 'South Africa' but without the 't', hence the difference. Mother City - Cape Town; Moz - Mozambique ...