The following lists events that happened during 2008 in South Africa. President: Thabo Mbeki (until 24 September). Kgalema Motlanthe (from 25 September)...

discrimination and even violence in South Africa due to competition for scarce economic opportunities. After majority rule in 1994, contrary to expectations...

The economy of South Africa is the largest economy in Africa, it is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight...

White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking...

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...

system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised...

South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months...

A list of current public holidays in South Africa: In gold, the National Day The Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) states that whenever a public...

Miss South Africa 2008 was held on 15 December 2008 in Sun City, South Africa. The winner will represent South Africa at Miss Universe 2009 and Miss World...

of South Africa is about 62 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. With a majority being Black Africans. The South African...

The president of South Africa is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of South Africa. The president directs the executive branch of...

The May 2008 South African riots was a wave of xenophobic riots starting in Alexandra, Gauteng (a neighborhood of Johannesburg) on 12 May 2008 and then...

The national flag of South Africa was designed in March 1994 and adopted on 27 April 1994, during South Africa's 1994 general election, to replace the...

The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabhokobhoko), is the country's national...

Sport has a significant role in South African culture. The three most popular mainstream sports in the country — cricket, football and rugby — reflect...

Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...

groups in South Africa have a variety of origins. The racial categories introduced by the colonial apartheid regime remain ingrained in South African society...

The South Africa men's national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international soccer and it is run by the South African Football Association...

South African Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the twelfth largest Jewish community in the world, and the largest on the African...

coordinates) South Africa produced around 245,000 GWh of electricity in 2021. Most of this electricity is produced using coal and is consumed domestically. In 2022...

In South Africa, Asian usually refers to people of South Asian ancestry, more commonly called Indians. They are largely descended from people who migrated...

The Republic of South Africa is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic. The President of South Africa serves both as head of state and as head of...

South Africa is a Christian majority nation with Islam being a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population. Islam in South Africa...

Agriculture in South Africa contributes around 5% of formal employment, relatively low compared to other parts of Africa and the number is still decreasing...

usually called in South Africa, is the nation's most popular sport followed by rugby union and cricket. The governing body is the South African Football Association...

Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...

South Africa is divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, known as Bantustans, were reintegrated...

Television in South Africa was introduced in 1976. The country is notable for the late introduction of widespread television broadcasting. Opposition...

Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s...

Racism in South Africa can be traced back to the earliest historical accounts of interactions between African, Asian, and European peoples along the coast...