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White South Africans are WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS! Ons is mense van die land! Don't relate us to Europeans. Edit that 188.172.158.82 (talk) 15:40, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, your invanders on another continent, 2601:8C:B80:6660:4958:DCED:9E49:35A7 (talk) 19:23, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There should be another wiki page for Republic of South Africa between 1961 and 1994, as the only common thing between these 2 countries is their name. 217.131.103.123 (talk) 16:08, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed but last time there was a suggestion like this it didn't work out Patriciogetsongettingridofhiswiki (talk) 21:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change 23 to 24th. South africa is the 24th most populous country in the world. TurtleRabbit164 (talk) 20:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Liu1126 (talk) 20:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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other languages spoken in south africa are:sepulana a northern sotho,xitsonga and swati lingua franca dialect (,hipai,sekutswe both these languages are subgroups of sepulana ),isinrebele,sehanawa (northen sotho dialect that originates from botswana),setlokwa. 41.150.248.229 (talk) 21:18, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Jamedeus (talk) 22:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There reads: "Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital. Bloemfontein has traditionally been regarded as the judicial capital. The Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, is located in Johannesburg."
What do these all mean? Legislative apparently means that they make the laws. The highest court applies the law(s) in court cases, or what? I think "judicial" also means something law-releated. And "administrative" means that in Pretoria the decicions are actually made? 193.210.193.109 (talk) 15:39, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Separation of powers, they are different branches of government. CMD (talk) 02:16, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Blthippeswamy (talk) 06:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit of outline of South Africa

 Not done: Edits to Outline of South Africa should be posted at Talk:Outline of South Africa. CMD (talk) 06:08, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Economy section, first paragraph:

"South Africa has a mixed economy, South Africa's economy is the most industrialized and technologically advanced in Africa respectively, it has the second largest economy in Africa, after Nigeria and the 39th largest in the world."

This is a strange run-on sentence and I don't even know what the "respectively" means here. At the very least please change the first comma to a full stop (or period as Americans call it?) but here's my proposal to rephrase it (or something like this, feel free to rephrase it, English isn't my first language)

"South Africa has a mixed economy. The country has the most industrialised and technologically advanced economy in Africa, the second largest in Africa overall after Nigeria and the 39th largest in the world."

There is also what I think is an unnecessary capital letter in the next paragraph:

"South Africa is ranked 40th by total Wealth"

I think "Wealth" shouldn't be capitalised?

Thank you! 2A02:C7E:3188:4C00:75C1:4528:894D:8DAA (talk) 12:28, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: I uncapitalized "Wealth" for you, however I'm not sure if the rest should be changed, since the article is written in South African English (if this grammar issue is an issue in all forms of English, then I'm stupid). Myrealnamm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 18:19, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]