Republic of South Africa (Nuclear Apocalypse: 2014)

Republic of South Africa
↓ 1994–2016 ↓
Flag Coat of arms
Motto "!ke e: ǀxarra ǁke" (ǀXam) "Unity in Diversity"
Anthem "National anthem of South Africa"
Capital		Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative)
Languages		Afrikaans Northern Sotho English Southern Ndebele Southern Sotho Swazi Tsonga Tswana Venda Xhosa Zulu
Religion		Secular
Government		Parliamentary republic
President
-	1994-1999	Nelson Mandela
-	1999-2008	Thabo Mbeki
-	2008-2009	Kgalema Motlanthe
-	2009-2014	Jacob Zuma
Deputy President
-	1994-1996	F. W. de Klerk
-	1996-1999	Thabo Mbeki
-	1999-2005	Jacob Zuma
-	2005-2008	Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
-	2008-2009	Baleka Mbete
-	2009-2014	Kgalema Motlanthe
History
-	Established	1994
-	Disestablished	2016
Preceded by Succeeded by First Republic of South Africa Transkei Bophuthatswana Venda Ciskei Northern Cape Cape Republic Bophuthatswana Transkei South Africa Orange Free State [[Stellaland]] KwaZulu

Once located on the southern tip of the continent of Africa, was a superstate known as South Africa.

Following the defeat of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State in the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, the Union of South Africa was created as a dominion of the British Empire in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony and Orange River Colony. The country became a self-governing nation state within the British Empire in 1934 following enactment of the Status of the Union Act. The dominion was disolved on 31 May 1961 as a result of the 1960 republican referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named Republic of South Africa. A republican constitution was adopted.

From 1948-1994, South African politics were dominated by Afrikaner nationalism. Racial segregation and white minority rule known officially as apartheid (Afrikaans for "Separateness") came into existence in 1960, and become an official law of segregation when South Africa was transformed into a republic. It was an extension of segregationist legislation enacted in 1960. On 27 April 1994, after decades of armed struggle and international opposition to apartheid, during which military and political support was provided primarily by the Soviet Union to the "non-racial" African National Congress (ANC), the ANC achieved victory in the country's first democratic election in which all races could vote. Until 2014, the African National Congress has dominated the politics of South Africa, in an uneasy alliance with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.

Despite of the rise of Nelson Mandela, racial tensions remained an issue in South Africa. Between the rise of the African National Congress in 1994 and the early spring of 2012, there had been 361,015 murders in all of South Africa and between 1990 and March 2012, there had been an estimated 1,544 murders on South African farms of which most of the victims were white while only 208 of the victims were Black. One common and possible motive was The Natives' Land Act adopted in 1913, which awarded the ownership of 87 percent of land to South Africans of European descent. The modern discontent among the black South Africans has caused the populists to call for a confiscation of white-owned farms in the north. The Marxist-Leninist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, founded by Julius Malema, demanded redistribution of the land and wealth. Although South Africa was spared from the destruction of the Nuclear War of 2014, the collapse of international trade caused the economy to drop dramatically and millions lost their jobs.