No, It's considered an emerging market or developing country. The South African economy is however very unique to other countries in the world, having a tier two economy one showing clear traits of a developed nation with high human development and first-world infrastructure and other areas showing traits of a lower-middle class or low income area where unemployment along with a lack of high education remains high . Huge inequality is also a major concern dragging down South Africa's ranking on the world human development index.
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South Africa is an independent country, represented in the United Nations and the African Union. It has a President, a Parliament and regular free and fair democratic elections. It has a very progressive constitution guaranteeing many basic human rights, and that constitution is strictly enforced by a constitutional court.
It is one of the richest countries in Africa, along with Egypt and Nigeria.
It was previously closely associated with Britain, having the British queen as its head of state, but that was dropped in 1961.
South Africa is the highest Gold Producing Country in Africa and also one of the worlds top 3 countries in the world for Gold Production.
The largest country in Africa is Algeria, which is 2,381,741 km^2. [10th in the world] (South Sudan declared independence from Sudan on July 9,2011 and "demoted" Sudan to the 3rd largest African nation[16th in the world], Democratic Republic of the Congo now being the second largest. [11th in the world])
Siphiwe Tshabalala of South Africa scored the first goal in 2010 fifa world cup.
Uganda and Zambia
World War 2 affected South Africa in a significant manner especially in terms of the politics of the country. This affected the neutral stand that Hertzog had advocated for in South Africa.