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  2. South African Bureau of Standards - Wikipedia

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    The South African Bureau of Standards ( SABS) is a South African statutory body that was established in terms of the Standards Act (Act No. 24 of 1945) [3] and continues to operate in terms of the latest edition of the Standards Act, 2008 (Act No. 29 of 2008) as the national institution for the promotion and maintenance of standardization and ...

  3. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    Emergency Broadcast System, Local Access Alert. The Emergency Alert System ( EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and both AM, FM and satellite radio.

  4. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ( COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981. Nine of the member states formed a free trade area in 2000 ( Djibouti ...

  5. ISO 3166-2:ZA - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-2:ZA is the entry for South Africa in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1 . ZA hails from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika.

  6. Emergency population warning - Wikipedia

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    Horn for public warning system in Sweden. An emergency population warning is a method where by local, regional, or national authorities can contact members of the public to warn them of an impending emergency. These warnings may be necessary for a number of reasons, including: Weather emergencies such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and ice storms.

  7. Cardinal direction - Wikipedia

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    The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively. Relative to north, the directions east, south, and west are at 90 degree intervals in the clockwise direction. The ordinal directions (also called the intercardinal ...

  8. SANS 164 - Wikipedia

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    SANS 164. South African National Standard 164: Plugs and socket outlets for household and similar purposes for use in South Africa is the South African Bureau of Standards ' standard for domestic AC power plugs and sockets. As a former British colony, South Africa 's electricity standards are of British derivation, and it uses 220/230 V at 50 ...

  9. Somerset East - Wikipedia

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    Postal code (street) 5850. PO box. 5850. Somerset East ( Afrikaans: Somerset-Oos ), officially renamed KwaNojoli in March 2023, [3] is a town in the Blue Crane Route Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was founded by Lord Charles Somerset in 1825. The Blue Crane Route follows the national road R63 from Pearston, via ...