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) over 130 years. However, the "za" continued to operate, and perhaps became even more powerful as the ability to safely travel and transport goods across the nation became increasingly scarce. Towards the end of the 16th century, one hundred years into the Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga briefly took command of the country, and established "free" markets and guilds, known respectively as "rakuichi" (楽市) and "rakuza" (楽座). These dealt a severe blow to the power and influence of the older, monopolistic "za", but did not replace them. Several other types of trade associations came into being around this time as well;