RSA, noun

Origin:
Initial letters of Republic of South Africa.
South Africa. Also attributive, South African. Cf. SA noun1.
[1973 J.C. Goosen S. Africa’s Navy 191Until the Department of Transport’s supply ship RSA was brought into service, most of the voyages were routine trips.]
1974 S. Afr. Panorama Nov. 41The need for a single comprehensive and authoritative work of reference on the RSA has long been experienced.
1981 Rand Daily Mail 13 Apr. 319-year-old Daniela D—, of Durban, was crowned Miss RSA at a glittering function in Cape Town on Saturday night.
1984 D. Beckett in Frontline Feb. 32The ‘RSA Government’ had no real interest in the homelands until about five years ago.
1990 Scheepers et al. in Armed Forces Nov. 12The operational concept behind the light infantry is to have a rapidly deployable force that can be utilised from cross border strikes to acting as a binding force in case of a conventional attack on the RSA.
1991 T. Sisson Just Nuisance 150Citizens of the RSA, from the Cape Peninsula, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, East London, and many other towns and cities of the Republic.
South Africa. Also attributive, South African.
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