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The following slang words used in South African originated in other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and subsequently came to South Africa. bint – a girl, from Arabic بِنْت. Usually seen as derogatory. buck – the main unit of currency: in South Africa the rand, and from the American use of the word for the dollar.
Zulu word meaning grandmother/grandma, also used as a general term of respect for women of appropriate age. Became part of the iconic slogan Yebo Gogo (Yes, Grandma) from the South African cellular service-provider Vodacom. gogo. In Tswana has the same meaning as gogga - it refers to a creepy crawly or an insect. homeland
Standard Time (SDT) and Daylight Saving Time (DST) offsets from UTC in hours and minutes. For zones in which Daylight Saving is not observed, the DST offset shown in this table is a simple duplication of the SDT offset.
South Africa signed up to use ISO 8601 for date and time representation through national standard ARP 010:1989 in 1998 A.D. The most recent South African Bureau of Standards standard SANS 8601:2009 [1] "... is the identical implementation of ISO 8601:2004, and is adopted with the permission of the International Organization for Standardization" and was reviewed in 2016.
South Africa KZM Phoebus Apolloa Zambia: CARZAM Zambia PHA Phoenix Air Group: GRAY BIRD United States PHN Phoenix Air Lines: PHOENIX BRASIL Brazil PAM Phoenix Air: PHOENIX Germany PPG Phoenix Air Transport: PAPAGO United States WDY Phoenix Airline Services: WINDYCITY United States HP Phoenix Airways: Switzerland PHY Phoenix Avia: PHOENIX ...
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
Kaffir (/ ˈ k æ f ər /), [1] is an exonym and an ethnic slur – the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa and to some degree Namibia and the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) In Arabic, the word kāfir ("unbeliever") was originally applied to non-Muslims of any ethnic background before becoming predominantly focused on pagan zanj (black African) who ...
In South Africa, the grading system used in secondary schools until 2008 (when the education minister implemented Outcomes Based Education or OBE curriculum) was as follows: Format: Code [x] ([Symbol]): [y]% - [z]%