Readit News"SA" is ambiguous. People do use to to refer to "South Australia" (the state) or also "Saudi Arabia" ISO 3166-2 country code.
ZA is not ambiguous, it has that going for it.
True, but I meant in South Africa, SA is the most used. Less so with RSA or ZAR. ZA is somewhat used but SA (I would say) dominates in conversation and in written text.
My father (born in ZA) had to re-register his birth at 65 when emigrating to the UK on a visa. The ZA government had no record of his birth, despite him having a drivers license, passport, tax returns for 40+ years…
This is the least bit surprising coming from a country that is in steady decline.
By what metric is it in "steady decline"? As as South African, it's amusing to see how my country is generalised.
What is ZA? Zambia?
ISO 3166-2 code for South Africa. It's from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika. It's used quite often to refer to South Africa; RSA or SA is also used.
Are they going to rehire the employees they fired for being against this and Microsoft's support of the genocide now? It's more than just mass surveillance, and their leaders need to be held accountable.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-azure-israel-top-cu...
botanical commented on Uruguay ditched fossil fuels for renewables washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/pcl
That's really commendable, but I wonder how to do it on a large scale. Uruguay's installed capacity is 4.6 GW. On a larger scale, batteries can't be the answer as their energy density is quite poor.
https://african.business/2025/10/energy-resources/has-south-...