South African
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1.4
- noun
- /saʊθ ˈæfrɪkən/
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sudafricano
- We are two Swedish South African girls who live in Switzerland.
- black South Africans
- white South Africans
- South Africans under apartheid
This ministry and outreach turned over to the South Africans.
- This ministry and outreach turned over to the South Africans.
- And it was years later that Nelson Mandela came to visit Cambridge and tell the folks at the PRWM, thank you for stopping the further capturing of black South Africans.
- Libya after Lockerbie and the South Africans.
- Don't ask South African whether the United Nations is relevant because United Nations helped us end apartheid and have a revolution peacefully.
Examples
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South Africa's problems will be solved by South Africans and not by foreigners.
Academic text (1992) -
Prudential Corporation announced on September 3, 1986, that it was selling its majority-owned South African subsidiary to a local company.
Academic text (1990) -
I'm a simple South African.
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A South African is a native of South Africa, regardless of colour.
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To many of us South Africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives.
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I am South African.
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To discuss this, we have Vuzi Tembecueo, a South African entrepreneur and broadcaster.
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Apartheid purposefully created tremendous impediments to the advancement of the majority of South Africans.
Academic text (1992) -
I apologize in my capacity as leader of the National Party to the millions of South Africans who suffered the wrenching disruption of forced removals in respect of their homes, businesses, and land, who over the years suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offenses.
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A South African is a native or inhabitant of South Africa.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a native or inhabitant of South Africa' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'South' (indicating the southern region) with 'African' (relating to Africa), pointing to the country South Africa. This is a regular demonymic/compound formation common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
South African comes from the words South and Africa, used to name a person from that southern part of the continent. So, a South African is someone who is 'a native or inhabitant of South Africa'.