| NELSONMANDELA | Democratic South Africa's first president (6,7) |
| MANDELA | South Africa's first president chosen by universal suffrage (7) |
| MBEKI | Thabo ....., second president of democratic South Africa (5) |
| TOFREEDOM | Film about the life of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Mandela: Long Walk... (2,7) |
| KRUGER | South Africa's first national park |
| BOTHA | South Africa's first prime minister |
| WESSELS | Kepler, South Africa's first postapartheid Test cricket captain (7) |
| CAIRO | One endpoint of Africa's first railroad |
| LIBERIA | Africa's first and oldest republic |
| ELLEN | ___ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state |
| 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 |
| MAVIS | First name of South Africa's famous "galloping granny" (5) |
| TRANSVAAL | The first match at South Africa's Ellis Park was played between the All Blacks and this provincial side |
| OLIVERTAMBO | President of South Africa's African National Congress who was succeeded by Nelson Mandela in 1991 (6,5) |
| PRINCE | He was South Africa's highest scorer - he made 97 - in its first home loss against India in 2006 (6) |
| SIERRA | I go astray in South Africa's mountains (6) |
| STANZAS | Laurel's wreathing South Africa's poetry (7) |
| FATCHANCE | Overweight rebel takes over South Africa's ruling party |
