south africa

Noun
  1. A republic at the southernmost part of Africa;
    Achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910;
    First European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers) (synset 109021852)
    domain member region:
    • trek - a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
    • laager, lager - a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
    • biltong - meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun
    • pagad, people against gangsterism and drugs - a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords; evolved into a vigilante group with anti-western views closely allied with Qibla; is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East; is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism
    • qibla - a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa
    • kopje, koppie - a small hill rising up from the African veld
    • caffer, caffre, kaffir, kafir - an offensive and insulting term for any Black African
    • mealie - an ear of corn
    is an instance of: african country, african nation - any one of the countries occupying the African continent
    member holonym:
    • sotho - a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages
    • batswana, bechuana, tswana - a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa
    • south african - a native or inhabitant of South Africa
    • xhosa - a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa
    belongs to: british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations - an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
    has:
    • kwazulu-natal, natal - a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean
    • capital of south africa, pretoria - city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa
    • cape town - port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa
    • johannesburg - city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries
    • kimberley - city in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing
    • durban - a port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; resort and industrial center
    • free state, orange free state - a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997
    • transvaal - a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers
    • cape colony, cape of good hope province, cape province - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
    • bloemfontein - the seat of the supreme court
    • soweto - a large collection of African townships to the southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa; inhabited solely by Black Africans
    • kalahari, kalahari desert - a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana
    • crocodile river, limpopo - an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean
    • orange, orange river - a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean
    is a part of: africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
    same as: republic of south africa

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