.za

.za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa. It is administered by the .za Domain Name Authority (ZADNA).

None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch Zuid-Afrika. Dutch was considered an official language in the Union of South Africa until 1961; it subsequently lost its synonymous status with Afrikaans in 1983 and Suid-Afrika is now the more common regional spelling. However, the .sa domain is used by Saudi Arabia and ZAR also serves as the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African rand.

Even the international vehicle code for South Africa has been "ZA" since 1936.

2nd level domains

Open and active

  • .ac.za - South African academic and tertiary societies
  • .co.za - general use by South African and non-South African persons and entities
  • .edu.za - South African further education training and private colleges
  • .gov.za - South African government & its departments and entities
  • .law.za - South African legal firms
  • Zaï

    Zaï or Tassa is a farming technique to dig pits (20-30cm long and deep and 90 cm apart) in the soil during the preseason to catch water and collect compost. The technique is traditionally used in western Sahel (Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali) to restore degraded drylands and increase soil fertility.

    Zaï holes are being reintroduced since the 1980s by Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer from Burkina Faso, who introduced the innovation of filling them with manure and compost to provide plant nutrients. The manure attracts termites, whose tunnels help further break up the soil. He also slightly increased the size of the holes over the traditional models. Zaï holes help improving the yields of trees, sorghum, and millet by up to 500%.

    As an alternative to the zaï-technique some agronoms suggest a diking technique, especially in the case of very light soils.

    See also

  • Farmer-managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)
  • Regenerative Agriculture
  • References

  • "Sourcebook of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augumentation in Africa". Unep.or.jp. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  • ZA

    ZA or Za may refer to:

  • South Africa (ISO 3166 country code, from Dutch Zuid-Afrika)
    • South Africa's top level domain, .za
  • South Africa's top level domain, .za
  • Zambia (FIPS 10-4 and obsolete NATO country code)
  • Interavia Airlines (IATA airline code), an airline based in Moscow, Russia
  • ZoneAlarm
  • Zinc aluminium
  • Zettayear or zettaannum, a unit of time equal to 1021 (one sextillion) years
  • Za (guilds), which were Japanese feudal trade guilds; also a Japanese term (座), usually meaning "seat" or "platform"
  • Za (poetry), the site of a renga session; also, the sense of dialogue and community present in such a session
  • Ẓāʼ, a letter of the Arabic alphabet
  • "Za", a song by Supergrass from their 2002 album Life on Other Planets
  • Zhuang languages (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)
  • Zeptoampere and zettampere (also written zetta-ampere), multiples of the SI unit of electric current Ampere, equal to 1021 (one sextillionth) amperes and 1021 amperes, respectively
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