| NELSONMANDELA | South Africa's ex-president (6,7) |
| PORTELIZABETH | South Africa's sixth-largest city, officially renamed Gqeberha (4,9) |
| BARRYRICHARDS | Batsman whose Test average is 72.57 from only 4 Tests, before South Africa's 1970 international exclusion (5,8) |
| THABOMBEKI | South Africa's second post-apartheid president |
| MBEKI | Thabo, South Africa's second post-apartheid president (5) |
| MANDELA | *South Africa's first black president |
| TOFREEDOM | Film about the life of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Mandela: Long Walk... (2,7) |
| OLIVERTAMBO | President of South Africa's African National Congress who was succeeded by Nelson Mandela in 1991 (6,5) |
| SIERRA | I go astray in South Africa's mountains (6) |
| STANZAS | Laurel's wreathing South Africa's poetry (7) |
| KRUGER | South Africa's first national park |
| FATCHANCE | Overweight rebel takes over South Africa's ruling party |
| TSAR | Hats off to South Africa's rugby adjudicator (4) |
| FORMOSA | Doctor boarding for South Africa's historic island (7) |
| HOPE | South Africa's Cape Of Good ... (4) |
| ZULU | South Africa's Mangosuthu Buthelezi, for one |
| PRETORIA | South Africa's capital city |
| STANZA | Laurel, eg, crowning South Africa's verses |
| SATSUMA | An essential boost for South Africa's fruit |
| INKATHA | South Africa's ... Freedom Party |
