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  South Africa - MSN Encarta
With the end of South Africa’s international isolation in 1994, the country resumed participation in many international organizations from which it was excluded in the final years of apartheid.
South Africa is also a member of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community.
Centuries before whites settled in South Africa, Bantu-speaking groups migrated from west central Africa and settled in a fertile region between the Drakensberg Mountains and the Indian Ocean.
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 South Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Namibia in the northwest, on Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, on Mozambique and Swaziland in the northeast, and on the Indian Ocean in the east and south.
South Africa has three main geographic regions: a great interior plateau; an escarpment of mountain ranges that rims the plateau on the east, south, and west; and a marginal area lying between the escarpment and the sea.
South Africa was strongly opposed to the establishment of fl rule in the white-dominated countries of Angola, Mozambique, and Rhodesia, and gave military assistance to the whites there.
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 Profile - South Africa
South Africa, southernmost country in Africa, bordered on the north by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland; on the east and south by the Indian Ocean; and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
South Africa’s 2,800 km (1,740 mi) of coastline has few bays or coves and only one good natural harbor, at Saldanha Bay in the southwest, which is used mainly for the export of iron ore. Other ports are essentially artificial, including Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, and Richard’s Bay.
With the South Africa Act of 1910 the British parliament established the dominion of the Union of South Africa with the four colonies as its provinces.
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 The Connotation of Mandela's 85th Birthday
No one could have imagined that the once bitterly divided society of South Africa would be able to move on finally to a democratic transition without the slightest possibility of bloodshed.
South Africa’s constitution, the most progressive and liberal of all modern constitutions, and its sole protector and interpreter, the Constitutional Court of the country, have played a vital role in transforming South Africa.
Eritrea and the Crises in the Horn of Africa.
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 MAR | Data | Chronology for Europeans in South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
South Africa sent hundreds of soldiers into Lesotho at the request of Lesotho's Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, who was fearing a coup attempt due to political unrest after last month's elections.
South Africans convinced that the police were not brutal enough were becoming active in groups such as Pagad and Mapogo-a-Mathamaga that take it upon themselves to enact their own form of justice.
South Africa was cited as the world's most violent country outside a war zone.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=56004   (4827 words)

  
 Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Ch.1
South Africa's first republic was born in a struggle between white settlers and an external imperial authority for the right to suppress, plunder and exploit an African people.
Britain annexed Basutoland in 1868, Griqualand West in 1871, the South African Republic in 1877, Zululand in 1887, Matabeleland in 1894, and the Afrikaner republics in 1900.
South Africa's industrial era was baptized in blood and the subjugation of small nations.
www.anc.org.za /books/ccsa01.html   (7614 words)

  
 GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg184 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Nicolaas Prinsloo was born on 8 Aug 1780 in South Africa.
Anna Sophia Margaretha du Plessis was born in 1867 in Steynsburg, Cape, South Africa.
Gert Stephanus Grobler was born on 25 Nov 1894 in Burgersdorp, Cape, South Africa.
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 GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg158 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nicolaas Prinsloo was born on 8 Aug 1780 in South Africa.
Daniel Charl Stephanus Grobbelaar was born in 1944 in Bloemfontein, O.F.S., South Africa.
Anna Sophia Margaretha Du Plessis was born in 1867 in Steynsburg, Cape, South Africa.
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 MAR | Data | Chronology for Asians in South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The South African government's Department of Foreign Affairs refused to grant the association's demand to ban foreign street vendors because South Africa is a signatory of the Organisation for African Unity and the UN conventions.
His receiving the second highest number of votes for the sixty vacancies on the ANC's national executive committee, along with the fact that only three indigenous fls finished in the top ten were a disappointment to a group within the ANC which tries to advance the claims of indigenous Africans over those of minority populations.
ANC south central councillor S'thenjwa Nyawose said that twelve Umlazi residents had been murdered in nearby Chatsworth (an area with a large Indian population) since June in racially motivated attacks.
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 The Griquas (Bastards) and their coinage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The London Missionary Society at an early date of its activities in South Africa had its attention drawn to a small group of hunters leading a nomadic life in the great plain south of the Orange River.
Thus, when Rev. John Campbell visited South Africa in 1812 and passed through Klaarwater, the Griquas had attained as great a degree of civilisation and prosperity as they have since shown themselves capable of.
Supplies of the coins were made by the well-known diesinker, Thomas Halliday, and sent out to South Africa in 1815 followed by a further consignment in 1816.
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 South Africa in the 19th Century
Unlike most of the rest of Africa, South Africa was very sparsely populated at the time when the first Europeans arrived.
One of them was Cecil Rhodes who arrived in South Africa at age 16 and eventually gained control over most of the mines through his De Beers Consolidated Company.
Despite their efforts, Rhodes received a charter for the British South Africa Company in October 1889 because the government thought this was a low-cost way to prevent Germans, Boers or Portuguese from occupying Matabeleland.
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 South Africa: History — Infoplease.com
, an ardent advocate of federation in S Africa, became prime minister of Cape Colony, and by 1894 he was encouraging the non-Afrikaner whites (known as the Uitlanders) in the Transvaal to overthrow Kruger.
South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth in 1994 and also relinquished its last hold in Namibia, ceding the exclave of
The politics of identity: South Africa, story-telling, and literary history.
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 South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
His TRAVELS provides an interesting account of South Africa at a time when relatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers, valuable less for its geographical information than for its addition to the knowledge of the natural history of the area.
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: [eight years a resident at the Cape: comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of the British emigrants]; edited with notes by Vernon S. Forbes.
SOUTH AFRICA IN PRINT = BOEKSPIEEL VAN SUID-AFRIKA: catalogue of an exhibition of books, atlases and maps held in the South African Library, Cape Town, 1 March till 5 April 1952 in commemoration of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck… Cape Town: Book Exhibition Committee, 1952.
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 History of South Africa Time Line 1488-2000 - GriquatownAndersons.com
Boer republics north of Vaal unite as South African Republic with Pretoria as the capital.
Union of South Africa established by joining the British colonies and the Boer republics.
The homelands of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei are separated from South Africa and established as independent states.
griquatownandersons.com /SouthAfricanHistory.html   (2933 words)

  
 War of 1812 Shipwrecks
Shortly after the War of 1812 began he was ordered to the lake, where he was to create and command a naval squadron.
During the first two years of the war, 1812 and 1813, Macdonough’s ‘warships’ consisted of merchant sloops that were strengthened and armed.
Her master’s thesis on the Linnet, entitled Linnet: The History and Archaeology of a Brig from the War of 1812 was completed in May, 1998.
ina.tamu.edu /LCwarof1812.htm   (1532 words)

  
 South Africa (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
South Africa left the Commonwealth 1961 and was readmitted 1994.
Helena and Dependencies, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands.
Civic Heraldry of South Africa, by Ralf Hartemink.
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 NCCED's Study Tour to South Africa
One of several large American foundations with a grantmaking presence in South Africa, the Mott Foundation focuses its giving on strengthening civil society, with an emphasis on democracy and governance issues.
The first grants in South Africa were awarded in 1988 and now Mott awards $5 million a year to a total of 90 organizations.
A total of 40 non-profits in South Africa are involved in providing what is known as social housing to local residents.
www.ncced.org /international/NGO.html   (1610 words)

  
 RICSA select bibliography vol 1
Winkler, H.E., The Divided Roots of Lutheranism in South Africa.
Davenport, R., Nineteenth Century Churches in South Africa: Effects of the British Occupation on Eccelesial Developments at the Cape Between 1795 and 1843.
Elphink, R., Nineteenth Century Churches in South Africa: Efforts of the British Occupation on ecclesial development at the Cape between 1795 and 1843.
web.uct.ac.za /depts/ricsa/sh_bib1.htm   (3562 words)

  
 South Africa Zulu People
Zulu has about 10 million speakers and in South Africa, and is one of country's 11 official languages.
Around 1812, on the death of his father, Shaka accepted Dingiswayo's aid and, by arms, reclaimed his place as heir to the Zulu throne.
Dingane had agreed to cede to the Boers the lands south of the Tugela River to the Mzimvubu River, but thereafter relented and had 100 of them killed.
www.africapoint.com /Newsletters/zulu/index.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Antique Maps of Africa and South Africa
A wonderfully decorative map of Africa by Willem (Guilielmus) Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the progenitor of the famous Blaeu cartographic firm of Amsterdam.
The coast of Africa, which was quite well known by the Dutch at this time-as demonstrated by the accurate shape of the continent, is filled with details of bays, capes, rivers and the like.
The interior of the south is mostly blank, "Unknown Parts," though Lake Maravi, an early reflection of the interior lakes, is shown.
www.philaprintshop.com /africa.html   (2817 words)

  
 EUGENE CASALIS, South Africa, French Reformed Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The French Reformed Church was an active presence in South Africa, primarily in Basutoland, and as was common among French Protestant missionaries, a few leading families tended to support the missions generation after generation.
Casalis arrived in South Africa on February 24, 1833, after an arduous three-and-a-half month voyage to the Cape.
There he was met by the redoubtable John Philip, who welcomed a generation of new missionaries to South Africa even when they were not members of his own denomination.
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 David Collins: South Africa Gallery
The African penguin occurs along the coast of southern Africa.
South of the range lies the narrow Little Karoo region and to the north the vast Great Karoo, a mostly flat semi desert punctuated by occasional hills and mountains.
It was originally established as a British military outpost in 1812 but quickly grew into a regional business and educational center after the arrival of the British settlers in 1820.
www.eg.bucknell.edu /~dcollins/pictures/southafrica   (384 words)

  
 South Africa - British Colonialism
They attacked the Xhosa from 1799 to 1803, from 1811 to 1812, and again from 1818 to 1819, when at last, through ruthless warfare, they succeeded in expelling the Africans into the area north of the Great Fish River.
Thereafter, the British sought to create a fixed frontier by settling 5,000 British-assisted immigrants on smallholder farms created out of land seized from the Xhosa south of the Great Fish River and by clearing all lands between the Great Fish River and the Keiskama River of all forms of African settlement.
British missionaries, who were active in South Africa for the first time in the 1810s and who had a sympathetic audience in Britain, condemned the cruel labor practices often adopted by Trekboers against their slave and Khoikhoi workers and decried the discriminatory provisions of the Hottentot Code.
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 Hill Monastic Manuscript Library | Collections | South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Today the collection is gaining a wider audience, in particular through the recently published catalogue by Carol Steyn (The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Grey Collection of the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town [2002], Volume 180 of Analecta Cartusiana).
In 1999, the South African Library merged with the State Library in Pretoria to form the National Library of South Africa.
The earliest manuscript is a Latin Bible from the period around 875 to 900, probably written in France (Grey 4 c 15; South Africa 95).
www.hmml.org /coll/collection.asp?coll=saf   (483 words)

  
 IllumiRate Directory | Society & Culture | History | Africa |
Profile of the former President of South Africa, with quotes, images and links to further information, including his speeches.
Offering a concise history of the Presbyterian Church in South Africa from 1812 to the present.
Information and maps on the Trans-Saharan gold trade that prospered in Africa from the 7th to the 14th century.
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 BBC SPORT | Football | African | Clockwatch: South Africa 0-2 Guinea
Guinea deservedly win their opening group game against South Africa but will need to work harder in their second game against Zambia.
1940: South Africa's Zuma fluffs what should have been South Africa's equaliser, opting for a bicycle kick in the penalty box instead of a simple strike, when a rebound fell to his feet.
But the resultant effort does not trouble South Africa's defenders, who clear it out of the vital area.
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 About Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Cecil John Rhodes acquired the estate in 1891 and bequeathed the homestead to the government as a permanent residence for all future Prime Ministers of South Africa.
The remainder of the estate was left to the Government "for the people of South Africa" with the hope expressed that a national university would be established on his estate.
The Medical Faculty was eventually established as part of the South African College in 1912 before the College became the University of Cape Town in 1918.
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 South Africa Hotels, Hotels in South Africa - Africa Stay.com
Surrounded by some of South Africa's finest scenery, Cathedral Peak Hotel offers excellent cuisine, warm hospitality and luxurious accommodation.
At the foot of Mpumalanga's Hlumuhlumu mountains, 283km east of Johannesburg lies this Satour award winner famed for its hot mineral springs and surrounding...
Imvubu Lodge, Imvubu meaning hippo in Zulu, was inspired by the famous "Huberta the Hippo" who undertook the historic journey from Zululand to East...
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 GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg328 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jacobus Van Den Berg was born in 1727 in Swellendam, Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa.
She married Jacobus Van Den Berg in 1753 in Cape, South Africa.
Jan Botma was born on 13 May 1703 in Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa.
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 - SouthAfrica.info
South Africa is bidding to host what will be one of the biggest scientific instruments in the world - a future generation international radio telescope that will enable astronomers to probe the early evolution of our galaxy.
South Africa combines a highly developed first-world infrastructure with a vibrant emerging market economy.
South Africans, get wise to a range of services, advice and information freely available to you.
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