The Southern African Cat Council (SACC) is a cat registry

Cat registry

A cat registry is an organisation that registers cats for exhibition and breeding purposes. A cat registry stores the pedigrees of cats, prefixes or affixes of catteries, studbooks , breed descriptions and the standards of points for those breeds; lists of judges qualified to judge at shows run...

 and cat fancy

Cat Fancy

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 organization based in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, affiliating 9 clubs, 14 breed groups and 4 judges panels.

History

SACC was founded in 1945 as the Associated Cat Clubs of South Africa, the first organization serving the South African cat fancy. In 1996, the members overhauled the organization's structure and constitution, and adopted the name Southern African Cat Council.

SACC joined the World Cat Congress

World Cat Congress

In 1994 the Italian cat club, Associazione Nazionale Felina Italiana, organised a cat club seminar during which a meeting was held between the visiting heads of world cat organisations...

in 2006.