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Can this "... When apartheid ended, the number of channels available in South Africa expanded greatly as American television programmes were allowed to broadcast..." be substantiated? As far as I know American television programmes was always shown here. It was the British Actors Guild who had a problem with programmes with them in it shown on SABC. Also the new channels have to show a very high percentage of locally made programmes which does not make sense to me in light of this statement.--Jcw69 11:42, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

At the risk of revealing my age, I have to agree. Growing up with "classic" American sitcoms like The A-Team, MacGyver, etc. in the 1980s, and taking into account that TV was only established here as late as 1979 (according to this source, at least, although the SABC and Television in South Africa articles puts the start of nationwide broadcasts at 1976), I doubt that they were under such heavy sanctions as the sentence suggests. The TV in SA article also goes into more depth, so maybe it should simply be changed to a link there? Dewet 13:47, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I changed this construction: "It is located at the southern tip of the continent, and borders Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland. The small nation of Lesotho is entirely contained within South African territory."

which could be easilly misconstrued to mean that Lesotho was not a fully independent nation-state but part of South Africa. Lesotho was not included in the original list of bordering countries, and it was refered to as a "nation," which is not neccesarily an independent state - ie "Cherokee Nation." Most importantly, Lesotho was said to be "entirely contained within South African territory." "Contained within" could very easily be understood to mean "a part of," so I changed it to "surrounded by," which is much more clear and unambiguous. It's also the wording used in the Lesotho article. Blackcats 18:16, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Strange. In the main page version, poor Lesotho is omitted entirely. Who does not like Lesotho and why? --Oop 08:53, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Why == Why not - fix it before anyone else. Wizzy…☎ 09:34, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

How can one fix the Main Page if it is protected?! --Eleassar777 09:52, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

'The Republic of South Africa is a republic in southern Africa' ... is that stating the obvious? Great article though. Proto 14:21, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What is the "Whistling Tongue" mentioned in the languages section? I've never heard of that, I don't remember seeing it on the Canary Islands article and this section in this article gives no explanation of what it is or why it is remarkable. Rhesusman 14:39, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't recall seeing it earlier, it must have been added fairly recently. Looks like vandalism to me, and I've removed it, along with a puerile "Ian and MAtt were here" comment that was added to the intro. I thought the page was meant to be protected? Impi 20:29, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)