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  2. South African Standard Time - Wikipedia

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    South African Standard Time ( SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in either time zone. Solar noon in this time zone occurs at 30° E in SAST, effectively making ...

  3. Time in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Africa. Africa, the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, spans across six different time zone offsets from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): UTC−01:00 to UTC+04:00. [2] [3] As Africa straddles the equator and tropics, there is little change in daylight hours throughout the year [4] and as such daylight saving time is ...

  4. Agulhas Current - Wikipedia

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    Agulhas Current. Coordinates: 30°00′S 35°00′E. The courses of the warm Agulhas current (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast. The Agulhas Current is formed by the confluence of the warm Mozambique and East Madagascar Currents, which meet south-west of Madagascar (not shown in ...

  5. South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa.It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini.

  6. Central Africa Time - Wikipedia

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    Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+02:00 ), which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time, Eastern European Time, Kaliningrad Time and Central European Summer Time . As this time zone is in the equatorial and tropical regions, there is little change in day length ...

  7. List of serial killers in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Basson, Pierre. The Insurance Killer, South Africa's First Recorded Serial Killer. 1903–1906. 9. 9+. Committed suicide to avoid apprehension. Murdered people in Claremont, Cape Town so he could get their life insurance. [5] Brown, John Frank.

  8. 2018–2021 Southern African drought - Wikipedia

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    The 2018–2021 Southern Africa drought was a period of drought that took place in Southern Africa. The drought began in late October 2018, and negatively affected food security in the region. In mid-August 2019, the drought was classified as a level 2 Red-Class event by the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System. [1]

  9. Date and time notation in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Date. South Africa signed up to use ISO 8601 for date and time representation through national standard ARP 010:1989 in 1998 A.D. The most recent South African Bureau of Standards standard SANS 8601:2009 [1] "... is the identical implementation of ISO 8601:2004, and is adopted with the permission of the International Organization for ...