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	South Africa - LoveToKnow 1911
		As a geographical unit South Africa is usually held to be that part of the continent south of the middle course of the Zambezi.
		In 1909 the value of the imports into British South Africa was returned at £29,842,000; the value of the exports at £51,151,000.3 Of the imports over £16,850,000 came from the United Kingdom, over £2,240,000 from Australia, £2,450,000 from Germany, and £2,195,000 from the United States.
		The languages spoken in South Africa by the inhabitants of European descent are English and Dutch, the latter chiefly in the form of a patois colloquially known as the Taal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /South_Africa (16235 words)

	South Africa (10/06)
		South Africa's GDP is expected to increase gradually during the next few years, and the government recently revised upward its 2005 estimated growth to 4.3%.
		South Africa was a founding member of the League of Nations and in 1927 established a Department of External Affairs with diplomatic missions in the main west European countries and in the United States.
		South Africans (particularly the ANC leadership) also acknowledge support from and ties to the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, U.S.-South Africa relations were severely affected by South Africa's racial policies.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2898.htm (6022 words)

	History of South Africa (including apartheid)
		The South African Party was an amalgamation of Die Afrikanerbond (Suid-Afrikaanse Party) in the Cape, Het Volk in the Transvaal, the Orangia-unie in the Orange Free State, and the Volksvereniging with a section of the English in Natal.
		Blue asbestos (crocidolite) was discovered in South Africa (the mining of which led to many cases of mesothelioma in South Africa).
		Bantu herdsmen and agriculturalists migrated to south of the Limpopo River.
	www.southafrica.to /history/history.html (4050 words)

	National Parks and Game Reserves in South Africa
		Most visitors to South Africa will want to visit at least one of the country's protected wilderness areas, so they can experience, first-hand, the wonder of nature in an untamed environment.
		Bontebok is located in the Western Cape Province six km south of Swellendam, and is a small plot that was specifically set aside to protect the almost extinct Bontebok antelope, that is found nowhere else.
		It is situated in the North West Province and is bordered by Botswana in the north, the spectacular Dwarsberg Mountains to the south, the Marico river to the east.
	www.africaguide.com /country/safrica/parks.htm (1971 words)

	South Africa
		Most of today's fl South Africans belong to the Bantu language group, which migrated south from central Africa, settling in the Transvaal region sometime before 1000 A.D. The Nguni, ancestors of Zulu and Xhosa, occupied most of the eastern coast by 1500.
		In 1912, the South Africa Native National Congress was formed in Bloemfontein and became known the African National Congress (ANC) with the goal of eliminating restrictions based on skin color.
		In May 1961, South Africa relinquished its dominion status and declared itself a republic.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/South_Africa.html (401 words)

	South African Gold Coins
		South Africa was first discovered by Bartholemew Diaz in 1488, but was not settled until 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company.
		In 1910, Cape of Good Hope and Natal were also incorporated to form the Union of South Africa, a British dominion, which was recognised as a sovereign state in 1934.
		Afrikaner unrest led to a referendum calling for relinquishment of dominion status, and South Africa became a republic on May 31st 1961.
	www.taxfreegold.co.uk /southafrica.html (233 words)

	History of South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Members of the Khoisan language groups are the oldest surviving inhabitants of the land, but only a few are left in South Africa today--and they are located in the western sections.
		Most of today's fl South Africans belong to the Bantu language group, which migrated south from central Africa, settling in the Transvaal region sometime before AD 100.
		Mbeki won the presidency of South Africa after national elections in 1999, when the ANC won just shy of a two-thirds majority in parliament.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/southafrica.html (1093 words)

	Timeline South Africa
		1816 Saartjie Baartman (~27), taken from S. Africa in 1810, fell sick and died penniless and friendless in France after being exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus." Her body was dissected, her brain and genitals were bottled, and her skeleton was wired and exhibited in the Musee de l’Homme in Paris.
		In 1996 South African former police officer Eugene de Kock said that Craig Williamson, a South African spy, was involved in the murder.
		In South Africa police chief Johan van der Merwe was instructed to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, called Khotso House, for harboring anti-apartheid groups.
	timelines.ws /countries/SOUTHAFRICA.HTML (14895 words)

	South African Coins
		First sighted by Bartholemew Diaz in 1488, South Africa was not settled until 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company, and subsequently by other Dutch, German and French.
		South Africa's apartheid policy became notorious, but by 1994, Nelson Mandela became president following the first free election for all people of all colours, and South Africa was re-admitted shortly afterwards to the Commonwealth of Nations.
		South Africa's first coinage was issued in 1892 as the Zuid Afrikaansche Republik or South African Republic.
	www.24carat.co.uk /southafrica.html (422 words)

	Images of early maps on the web: 5. Africa
		Africa (28 maps, of the African continent or southern Africa, enlargeable to medium to high res., with a heavy watermark, accompanied by descriptions - Digital Fine Art for the National Library of South Africa) {March, 2004}
		Africa (clicking on one of the map thumbnails brings up a page with small, low res.
		South Africa (28 maps, of the African continent or southern Africa, enlargeable to medium to high res., with a heavy watermark, accompanied by descriptions - Digital Fine Art for the National Library of South Africa) {March, 2004}
	www.maphistory.info /imageafrica.html (755 words)

	USN Ships--USS Porpoise (1836-1854)
		Built at the Boston Navy Yard, she was commissioned in August 1836 and performed survey and anti-piracy duties off the U.S. coast for the next two years.
		She left the United States in June 1853, sailed eastwards around the southern tip of Africa and arrived in China in March 1854.
		Never heard from again, she was presumably lost with all hands in a South China Sea typhoon a few days later.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/porpois2.htm (687 words)

	WWW-VL History Index: South Africa
		Huguenot Refugees in the Cape Colony of South Africa
		The Union of South Africa 1910-1960: a white-run state
		South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt ["Self Government" and "Self-Development"]
	vlib.iue.it /history/africa/south_africa.html (642 words)

	UniMaps.com - Map of Africa, today
		Town, 80 km downstream of the Volta dam that impounds the Volta river, south eastern Ghana.
		Eastern arm of the Gulf of Guinea, on the W coast of Africa (from the Niger delta to Gabon).
		Township in the Basse Casamance region, south coastal Senegal.
	unimaps.com /placelist-africa.html (3302 words)

	South Africa - British Colonialism
		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.
		In 1836, however, the British government, partly in response to missionary criticism of the invasion, returned the newly annexed lands to the Xhosa and sought a peace treaty with their chiefs.
	countrystudies.us /south-africa/11.htm (778 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 90025694
		Table of contents for White supremacy and Black resistance in pre-industrial South Africa : the making of the colonial order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865 / Clifton C. Crais.
		The manor on the hill: British settlers in a New South Africa 6.
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: South Africa History To 1836, South Africa History 1836-1909, South Africa Race relations, Blacks South Africa Politics and government, Government, Resistance to South Africa
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/cam022/90025694.html (183 words)

	South Africa, Paarl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Paarl is the third oldest town in South Africa and gets its name from an enormous granite dome that tops the mountain the town nestles beneath.
		Visible for miles around, Paarl rock (literally meaning pearl rock) is accompanied by a strange and controversial structure: the Taal monument, a monument to the Afrikaans language.
		The richness in fauna and flora even attracted the attention of Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution, when he visited Paarl in 1836.
	www.which-way.com /africa-guide/destinationsg2a/DestID~207 (172 words)

	Louis Trichardt, South Africa – Go2Africa’s Guide for Lowveld Vacations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The town of Louis Trichardt emerged out of the settlements of Dutch voortrekkers, who were travelling as far as possible away from British influence in a country they considered their own.
		Louis Trichardt arrived at the foot of the Soutpansberg mountains in 1836, and thought it a fine place to settle.
		Another party led by Hans van Rensburg continued towards Mozambique, probably due to arguments between the two men.
	www.go2africa.com /south-africa/lowveld/louis-trichardt (384 words)

	South Africa
		17 Dec 1856 Republic of Lijdenburg in South Africa established.
		Territorial Disputes: South Africa has placed military along the border to stem the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution; managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the boundary in the Orange River.
		29 Dec 1947 Marion Island annexed for South Africa by Lt. Cmdr.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /South_Africa.html (4731 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90025694
		Colonial land and labor policies that had their origin in the Eastern Cape spread into much of British Southern and Eastern Africa and as far away as the White Highlands of Kenya.
		In the modern era the Eastern Cape has been the cradle of African nationalism in South Africa.
		Clifton Crais moves beyond the liberal and Marxist approaches that have dominated South African history by bringing questions of culture to the center of his analysis.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam024/90025694.html (207 words)

	Missionary Letter, 1836 - Text Only or Text Illustrated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Missionary Letter, 1836 - Text Only or Text Illustrated
		This single document file consists of a transcript and a photgrpahic reproduction of the text of an 1836 letter from American missionary Mary Jane Wilson to her family describing some of the recent events in her life and ministry in southern Africa.
		Make your choice to view text only or text with photographic reproduction version.
	www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/docs/wiltoti.html (101 words)

	Film, TV, Video and Broadcast - South Africa
		Masters and Savant, 26 Susman Avenue, Blairgowrie, Johannesburg 2195, South Africa
		Condor Cape Town, 2 Port Road, V and A Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa
		Michael Gill Designs, PO Box 1836, Houghton 2041, South Africa
	www.kftv.com /country-ZAF.html (711 words)

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