Inozibgwa ndekuti Republic of South Africa (RSA), ihango inowan’ wa mubupelo gweburwa yeAfrica. inabanhu banopinda 59 miliyoni, imunamba 24 muhango dzose ndoba ndebanhu banjinji kakale hango ingabe 1,221,037 square kilometres (471,445 sq mi). South Africa inamatoropo makulu matatu: Inama ofisi ebantungamili iPretoria, yedzikhuta iBloemfontein ndeyePalamente i Cape Town. Doropo likulu kwazo kupinda whose iJohannesburg. MaSouth Africans anoswika 80% banhu batema, bakapalaniwa ndenjudzi dzakasiyana, belebeleka ndimi dzinjinji dze Africa. Kukoti bamwe banhu banobva kuhango dzeEurope, Asia, ndedzimwe njudzi dzakasiyana siyana.
Kuna vula yeSouth Atlantic nde Indian Oceans inobumba bhakhasi lehango kuburwa ingabe 2,798 khilomithazi (1,739 mi) kudze kundoswika kubunanzwa gwehango dzakabakidzana dzeNamibia, Botswana, nde Zimbabwe; kukoti kubhehhuba nde kuburwa yekubhehhuba (NE) kuna Mozambique nde Eswatini (yaka ‘wa Swaziland); yakapoteleka hango yematombo yeand Lesotho.