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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 28, 2005.

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Date	Process	Result
March 2, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 10, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
February 13, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
June 12, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 31, 2004, May 31, 2005, May 31, 2006, and May 31, 2021.
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White South Africans[edit]

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]

The same way that white Americans are invaders in the USA, Zulu Africans are invaders in South Africa, and so on. Reality is, anyone born in Africa is African, just as anyone born in America is American. More centuries have passed since white South Africans settled in South Africa than has passed since white Americans settled in the United States. 192.143.8.207 (talk) 20:13, 4 June 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]

Done ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 08:32, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Blthippeswamy (talk) 06:44, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Outline of South Africa

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 06:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]