(historical) A region ruled by the German Empire and later South Africa, corresponding to present-day Namibia.

Alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa

(historical) The official English name of the country of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, a former country in Southern Africa and Commonwealth dominion under nominal British sovereignty until it became a republic in 1961.

a former national anthem of South Africa, created during the 1920s and used from the 1930s to the 1990s.

(exonym, colloquial) South Africa from 1948 to 1991, when the apartheid policy was in force (some definitions may include pre-1948 and extend it to 1994).

(historical) An Italian colony created in 1936 with the merger of Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian Empire.

(historical) A company founded by Cecil Rhodes that received a charter from the British government to administer a country in southern Africa that Rhodes named Rhodesia.

(South Africa, politics) A minor South African political party founded in 2008.