| 100% | CRONJE | 6 | Piet __, South African commander in the Boer War |
| 49% | TRANSVAAL | 9 | Region disputed in the Boer Wars |
| 49% | BRITS | 5 | One side in the Boer Wars, informally |
| 46% | CLEOPATRA | 9 | Commander in the Final War of the Roman Republic |
| 44% | CAPETOWN | 8 | South African city founded by the Dutch in 1652 |
| 42% | ELS | 3 | South African golfer Ernie who held the #1 ranking in 1997 |
| 42% | CSA | 3 | The South in the Civil War: Abbr. |
| 42% | ERNIEELS | 8 | South African golfer who won The Open Championship in 2002 and 2012 |
| 41% | CSA | 3 | The South, in the Civil War: Abbr. |
| 41% | NADINE | 6 | South African writer Gordimer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 |
| 41% | SMUTS | 5 | Jan ___, South African leader instrumental in establishing the League of Nations |
| 41% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 40% | NEIL | 4 | ___ Sandilands, South African actor who played Rijkhaart Jacobz in the film "Proteus" |
| 40% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African novelist who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 40% | GARYPLAYER | 10 | South African golfer who won The Open Championship in 1959, 1968, and 1974 (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ELS | 3 | Ernie —, South African golfer who won The Open Championship in 2002 and 2012 |
| 40% | ZUMA | 4 | Jacob —, South African politician who was appointed president of the ANC in 2007 |
| 40% | BARNARD | 7 | Christiaan —, South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967 |
| 40% | ASHE | 4 | Commander at Briar Creek, in the Revolutionary War |
| 39% | FALKLANDS | 9 | War of 1982 in the South Atlantic |
| 39% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962: 2 wds. |
| 39% | THERON | 6 | Charlize ___, South African action star who featured in the 2020 movie "The Old Guard" |
| 39% | TOIT | 4 | Elize du ___, South African actress who played Izzy Davies in the soap opera "Hollyoaks" |
| 39% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | Former South African president who received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1998: 2 wds. |
| 38% | MBEKI | 5 | South African president who was instrumental in bringing the FIFA World Cup to Africa for the first time |
| 38% | FOCH | 4 | Ferdinand —, French commander in chief of Allied armies on the Western front in World War I |
| 38% | STEPHEN | 7 | ___ Mokoka, South African long-distance runner who set the world record in the ultramarathon in 2022 |
| 38% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | Former South African president who received the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding in 1993: 2 wds. |
| 38% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across set in the pre-Civil War South (3 wds.) |