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	German South-West Africa - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The boundary separating the German protectorate from the Portuguese possessions of Angola is the lower Kunene, from its mouth in 17° 18' S., II° 40' E. to the limit of navigability from the sea, thence in a direct line, corresponding roughly to the lat.
		On the south this narrow strip of land (known as the Caprivi enclave) is separated from southern Rhodesia by the Kwando or Chobe river.
		South of Omboroko, occupying the centre of the country, the range attains its highest average altitude.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /German_South-West_Africa (5077 words)

	Global Adrenaline :: Africa :: South Africa
		South Africa is the only country in the world that can lay claim to an entire floral kingdom within its borders.
		The range follows South Africa's border with the land-locked kingdom of Lesotho for approximately 150 miles (250kilometers), along an escarpment that separates the high, interior plateau from the subtropical coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
		South Africa is divided into a dry western area and a more lush eastern coast and interior.
	www.globaladrenaline.com /africa/southafrica (1657 words)

	South Africa - Religion and Apartheid
		The Dutch Reformed Church arrived in South Africa in the seventeenth century, after Calvinist reforms in Europe had entrenched the idea of predestination, and the Synod of Dort in the Netherlands had proclaimed this church as the "community of the elect" in 1619.
		In South Africa, a national synod and nine regional synods oversee the operation of the Dutch Reformed congregations.
		In the 1990s, fl South Africans form a majority in all large Christian churches in South Africa, except the Dutch Reformed churches, and this was true throughout the apartheid era.
	countrystudies.us /south-africa/53.htm (979 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)

	South Africa Information - South Africa History
		South Africa is rich in fossil evidence of the evolutionary history of the human family, going back several million years.
		It was in South Africa that Mohandas Gandhi refined from the mid-1890s the techniques of passive resistance, which he later effectively practised in India.
		South Africa was divided into nine new provinces in place of the four provinces and 10 'homelands' that existed previously.
	www.eyesonafrica.net /south-african-safari/south-africa-info.htm (8818 words)

	The Church in Africa
		From 1853 until 1978 most of the work of the Church in Africa was with European immigrants and their descendants in South Africa and in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively).
		The establishment of the Church in Africa began at a special Church conference in Salt Lake City in August 1852, when President Brigham Young called 106 men to leave their wives in charge of their families, homes, farms, and businesses and go on missions to various lands of the world to proclaim the restored gospel.
		One of the most significant events in the History of the Church in Africa was the dedication of the temple in Johannesburg in 1985, which has made it possible for the members to receive locally all the ordinances of the Church and to perform them in proxy for their deceased ancestors.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/africa.html (1288 words)

	SOUTH AFRICA
		Henning was the Director of the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville from 1979 to 1995.
		Kader Hassim and twelve others were charged with participating in terrorist activities and conspiring to overthrow the government of South Africa in 1970 as members of the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa and of the Non-European Unity Movement.
		South African Trials; Court Records of Various Appeal and Criminal Cases, Mostly on Charges of Sabotage or Political Offenses, Heard in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Appellate Division) and other Courts.
	sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /ejab/1/southafrica.html (6389 words)

	South Africa Education
		CHEC is a collaborative project of four tertiary education institutions in the Western Cape of South Africa: the University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, University of the Western Cape and Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
		South African students talk about their lives and issues such as pollution, conservaton and immigration to South Africa.
		Teachers from three Washington, DC, elementary schools are traveling to South Africa to "work with South African scientists in a survey of floral plant diversity at several parks and conservation areas and will meet South African educators who are also participating in the pilot program." Has links to USDA projects with South African scientists.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsaed.html (4975 words)

	Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa by Francis Galton
		Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa by Francis Galton
		His journey was a tedious and a very anxious one, but happily brought to a close without loss of life or serious accident to any member of his large party, which altogether amounted to nearly forty men.
		A question is commonly put to explorers, "Why could you not go further when you had already succeeded in going so far?" and the answer to this is, that several independent circumstances concur in stopping a man after he has been travelling for a certain time and distance.
	galton.org /books/south-west-africa (805 words)

	Cyndi's List - South Africa / Suid-Afrika
		Museum in South Africa focusing on the Huguenots of the Cape Settlements.
		Descendants of Hermanus Lambertus Bosman in South Africa.
		A chronicle of the antecedents of a South African Mercer.
	www.cyndislist.com /soafrica.htm (1813 words)

	SOME IMAGES OF SOUTH AFRICA
		In 1853 the town was established by Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and he named it after his father Andries Pretorius, the Boer hero at the battle of Blood river against the Zulus in 1860.
		The Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Freestate were united with the Cape Colony and Natal to become the Union of South Africa.
		The position of capital of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek was held until 1910 when South Africa became the Union of South Africa (a British colony).
	www.uem.mz /faculdade/ciencias/geologia/eventos/foto_pre.htm (441 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)

	safrica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The earliest Midgley to appear in the records in South Africa was Thomas Midgley born 1807 arriving at The Cape in 1830.
		Arrived in Capetown, South Africa 24th February, 1900 as a Sergeant with the 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry.
		Rob Midgley is from another branch of the family in South Africa he is a lawyer in the faculty of Law at Rhodes University and holds a copy of Midgleyana.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/safrica.html (655 words)

	South African Law and Legal Information
		South African research organization which sponsors programs in education, human resources, science development, social dynamics.
		See also the free weekly Legalbrief Africa, with legal and constitutional news from the continent and the subscription based weekly, eLaw and Management, on technology and the law.
		He is "a leader in the struggle for human rights in South Africa and [was] a freedom fighter in the African National Congress." The interview, by Harry Kreisler, is part of the Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, "Conversations with History" series.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsalaw.html (1518 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » Cecil Rhodes; The Colossus Of Southern Africa, By J.G. Lockhart And C.M. ...
		Cecil Rhodes; The Colossus Of Southern Africa, By J.G. Lockhart And C.M. Woodhouse
		South Africa — Politics and government — 1836-1909
		tags: 1836-1909, lockhart, john gilbert, 1891-, politics and government, rhodes, cecil, 1853-1902, south africa, south africa — politics and government — 1836-1909, woodhouse, c.
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1121928 (325 words)

	South Africa (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		South Africa left the Commonwealth 1961 and was readmitted 1994.
		South African Defence: In Transition, by Dr. Martin Edmonds.
		Civic Heraldry of South Africa, by Ralf Hartemink.
	www.regiments.org /nations/africa/safrica.htm (1088 words)

	Untitled Document
		Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853.
		In the last two decades there has been a burgeoning of literature on the social history of the Cape.
		For this reason, the volume should be of interest to those studying slavery, the social history of the Cape, gender or critical race theory.
	www.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v5/v5i1a8.htm (919 words)

	South Africa - Religion
		Healing dances are still among the most widely practiced religious rituals in South Africa, even in the 1990s, and are used in some African Independent churches to heal the sick or eradicate evil.
		Scholars have reported that during the rapid acculturation of the nineteenth century in southern Africa, new myths and legends arose, attributing greater and greater power to traditional gods.
		A brutal frontier war ensued, and the rebellion was suppressed in 1853.
	countrystudies.us /south-africa/52.htm (2100 words)

	Johannesburg South Africa Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Johannesburg South Africa Temple serves more than 50,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 11 stakes, 11 districts and six missions in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
		The Johannesburg South Africa Temple was the first temple to be built on the continent of Africa.
		The Church grew slowly in South Africa until 1978, when President Spencer W. Kimball received a revelation granting the blessings of the priesthood to all worthy male members of the Church regardless of race.
	www.lds.org /newsroom/showpackage/0,15367,3899-3--21-3-368,00.html (224 words)

	1851 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1850 in South Africa, other events of 1851, 1852 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
		Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the Cape Colonys eastern boundary starting the 8th Cape Frontier War and ends in 1853 in South Africa
		27 August - John Philip, a London Missionary Society's missionary to South Africa, dies at age of 76 at Hankey in the Cape Colony
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1851_in_South_Africa (132 words)

	Africa - Colonialsim
		Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference of 1884-85
		South Africa's Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy - Timeline
		Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (Chapter 4: "One Night with the Fugitives") -
	www.historyteacher.net /GlobalStudies/Africa_Colonialism.htm (1284 words)

	FIRST DINOSAUR DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a little known fact that the earliest discovery of dinosaur bones in South Africa were made early in 1845 by two eminent pioneers of science in the Eastern Cape, Dr William Guybon Atherstone and Mr Andrew Geddes Bain.
		At the close of the Sixth Frontier War in the Eastern Cape (1834-35) Andrew Geddes Bain, a settler of Scottish descent, was appointed to the post of Assistant Engineer in the Royal Engineers to supervise the construction of military roads on the frontier, in the country around Grahamstown.
		Reminiscences and anecdotes connected with the history of Geology in South Africa; or the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
	www.ru.ac.za /affiliates/am/paranth.html (2486 words)

	Soul Beat Africa: Communication for Change - Awards - South African Leadership Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These awards will showcase South Africa's innovative and influential media leaders while the country celebrated 10 years of democracy.
		The awards, facilitated by the Institute of African Leadership (IAL) and sponsored by Old Mutual, are intended to celebrate the nation's most creative leaders in a series of fields ranging from humanitarianism, to science and innovation, politics, and business.
		IAL is currently seeking nominations for media leaders who have contributed significantly towards the development of democracy in South Africa and community development.
	www.comminit.com /africa/Awards2004/sld-1853.html (202 words)

	Emory University> African Studies > Faculty > Pamela Scully
		Dr Scully has her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is an historian of South Africa.
		Content: This course explores moments of great political and social violence in contemporary Africa: the civil war in Somalia, the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s and Apartheid and its dissolution and legacies in Namibia as well as South Africa and the ongoing violence in the Sudan.
		We will focus on two case studies: Apartheid and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and the Rwandan Genocide and attempts to reconstruct the country in the decade thereafter.
	www.ias.emory.edu /faculty_scully.cfm (1509 words)

	History of South Africa: The British colonial era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		South Africa History - The British colonial era
		The Voortrekkers(as they were later called) coalesced in two land-locked republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.
		It is therefore not surprising that the eastern Cape became a seedbed of African nationalism, once the ideal and promise of inclusion in the common society had been so starkly violated by later racial policies.
	www.south-africa.org.za /history/brit-colonial.php (1378 words)

	Wellington, South Africa – Go2Africa’s Guide for Western Cape Vacations
		Wellington was a small farming community until the opening of the pass through the Bain’s Kloof mountains in 1853.
		This is because the man who donated his land for the Wellington station did so on condition that every passing train stopped there – even the -distance express trains pull in for a few minutes to adhere to this old rite of passage.
		Wellington is the centre for South Africa’s dried-fruit industry.
	www.go2africa.com /south-africa/western-cape/wellington (259 words)

	Darling, South Africa – Go2Africa’s Guide for Western Cape Vacations
		Many Western Cape towns are named after leading members of the British colonial administration, and this town follows suit in honour of Sir Charles Darling, Lieutenant Governor of the Cape Colony in 1853.
		The Darling area, just inland of the West Coast road, is famous for its splendid burst of spring flowers, with gorgeous displays of over 1,000 species during the wild flower festival at the end of September.
		South Africa’s most renowned drag artist and satirist, Peter-Dirk Uys (a.k.a.
	www.go2africa.com /south-africa/western-cape/darling (240 words)

	South African Emigration 1853-1865
		Research indicates that the following ships sailed from South African ports between 1853 and 1865 carrying returning missionaries, emigrating members, and servants: Name of Date of No. of Port of No. Days Port of No. Ship Sailing Pass.
		Enroute Arrival Leaders of Party 1 Unknown July 1853* 3 Cape Town Charles Rawlinson 2 Unity Nov. 28, 1855 18 Port Eliz.
		Returning missionaries 10 Emigrating members 281 Native servants(Kaffirs) 3 Total passengers 294 SAILING NUMBER 1 The ship, whose name is not known, left Capetown in July of 1853 and sailed to Australia.
	www.xmission.com /~nelsonb/safrica.htm (396 words)

	Palestine's water: stolen and destroyed : IMC-SA
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	southafrica.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1853 (998 words)

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