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Geographically, South Africa lies across two time zones, but the country runs on a standard time zone called SAST or South African Standard Time which is based on the exact time zone in Pietermaritzburg and corresponds to GMT+2.
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The whole of South Africa runs on GMT +2 time. That's two hours ahead of the UK without daylight savings. America runs on various GMT minus zones, so South Africa can be up to ten hours ahead of some parts of the US.
Africa is a continent not a country so they have many time zones.</
All continents have time zones. It is just that the continents are so big that they have many time zones in them.
Generally because it is easier to keep to one time zone for business purposes. Remember that only one small part of South Africa makes it into the "new" time zone.
South Africa has two time zones. Johannesburg is in the UTC+2 time zone and Marion Island is in the UTC+3 time zone. EST is UTC-5 therefore 7pm EST is 2am the following day in Johannesburg and 3am the following day on Marion Island. South Africa does not observe daylight savings.
The time throughout South Africa, South Africa Standard Time, is always UTC + 2 hours.
Africa
The whole of South Africa runs on GMT +2 time. That's two hours ahead of the UK without daylight savings. America runs on various GMT minus zones, so South Africa can be up to ten hours ahead of some parts of the US.
There are six time zones in Africa. From West to East the time zones in Africa are Cape Verde Time (GMT -1), Greenwich Mean Time (GMT +0), West Africa Time (GMT +1), Central Africa Time (GMT +2), East Africa Time (GMT +3), and Mauritius Time and Seychelles Time, both of which are (GMT +4.)