List of years in South Africa

Before European colonization

• BCE in Southern Africa
• Early CE in Southern Africa
• 13th century
• 14th century

  Colonization

• 15th century
• 16th century

  Union of South Africa

Republic of South Africa

Post Apartheid

published in 20th century

• Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, DJ Potgieter, Cape Town: NASOU, 1970
• Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa, CFJ Muller, 3rd rev., Pretoria Academica, 1981
• Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa 5th Edition , 1985
• Who did what in South Africa, Mona De Beer, Craighall, South Africa, AD Donker, 1988

• Who's who in South African politics, Shelagh Gastrow, 3rd Edition, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1990
• Who's who in South African politics, Shelagh Gastrow, 4th Edition, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1992
• New dictionary of South African biography, edited by E.J. Verwey, Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, 1995
• Africa Confidential who's who of Southern Africa, edited by Patrick Smith, Oxford, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998
• A-Z of South African Politics: the Essential Handbook, 1999, edited by Phillip Van Niekerk and Barbara Ludman, London, NY: Penguin Books
• Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, F Wallis, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2000

  published in 21st century