ISO 3166-2:ZA by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages: "Click on the button in the header to sort each column." The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998: ISO 3166-2:ZA ISO 3166-2:ZA is the entry for South Africa in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all
Za (guilds) The name may have also come, more simply, from the idea of merchants within a guild or association sharing a seat or platform in the marketplace. The earliest "za" came into being in the 12th century, consisting not only of trade guilds, but also guilds of performers and entertainers. Even today, performers of "kabuki" and "noh" are in associations called "za" (see Kabuki-za). The "za" trade guilds appeared as a major force in the 14th century, and lasted in their original forms through the end of the 16th, when other guilds and trade organizations arose and subsumed the "za". While