Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig saao.ac.za. NS
Answer
saao.ac.za. 5 NS eva.ns.cloudflare.com.
saao.ac.za. 5 NS lars.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0