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  World Almanac for Kids
The chief rivers of South Africa are the Orange, Vaal, and Limpopo.
The population of South Africa (1995 est.) was 43,594,800.
By the South Africa Act (1910) the British Parliament established the dominion of the Union of South Africa, with the four colonies as its provinces.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/southafrica.html   (7551 words)

  
 GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg258 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Charlotta Alida Grobbelaar was born on 29 Jun 1881 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, South Africa.
Pieter Stanley Grobbelaar was born on 7 Jun 1894 in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa.
Prins was born in 1755 in Cape, South Africa.
members.freemail.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg258.htm   (633 words)

  
 Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
May 1919: South West Africa was allocated to South Africa by the Allied and Associated Powers.
South African troops used the Caprivi Strip in northeast Namibia as a base from which to launch raids against SWAPO forces in the region.
February 1990: The president-elect of Namibia, Sam Nujoma accused South Africa of ulterior motives in resettling San in South Africa.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/namcaprichro.htm   (3635 words)

  
 Marillier Descendants Genealogy - pafg06.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Joan Marillier Brown was born on 24 Aug 1888 in Glen Avon, Somerset East, Cape Province, South Africa.
Francis was born on 15 Oct 1881 in Kimberley, South Africa.
Frieda died in 1911 in Transvaal, South Africa.
marillierfamily.homedns.org /FamilyTreeOnline/PAF-web/pafg06.htm   (710 words)

  
 Ethnologue: South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
ENGLISH [ENG] 3,500,000 in South Africa (1991 Christos van Rensburg), 9.1% of the population (1995 The Economist); 322,000,000 in all countries (1995 WA).
(CHUANA, COANA, CUANA, SECHUANA, TSHWANA, BEETJUANS) [TSW] 2,822,000 in South Africa (1995), 7.2% of the population (1995 The Economist); 1,070,000 in Botswana (1993 Johnstone); 11,300 in Namibia; 29,350 in Zimbabwe (1969 census); 3,932,000 in all countries.
(ISIZULU, ZUNDA) [ZUU] 8,778,000 in South Africa (1995), 22.4% of the population (1995 The Economist); 37,480 in Malawi (1966 census); 76,000 in Swaziland (1993 Johnstone); 248,000 in Lesotho (1993); 9,140,000 in all countries.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Sout.html   (1514 words)

  
 Diamonds | American Museum of Natural History
The story of diamonds in South Africa begins between December 1866 and February 1867, when 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs found a transparent stone on his father's farm, on the south bank of the Orange River.
Today South Africa is third in production in terms of value and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
Barney Barnato arrived in South Africa from England in 1873 at the age of 20.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/diamonds/africa.html   (606 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 African Libraries and Archives on the Internet
CHEC represents four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape of South Africa: the University of Cape Town, theUniversity of Stellenbosch, the University of the Western Cape and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
With the signing of a joint venture agreement between the the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) and the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and, Cape Town will be partnering with the largest and most successful book fair organisation in the world.
Sabilist, their discussion group, is concerned mainly with South African library matters.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/rsalibs.html   (2713 words)

  
 Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1872: The Basters flee Cape province in South Africa to escape discrimination.
south of Namibia's present capital of Windhoek, is established as a republic with its own laws and flag on land once owned by the Nama.
He had lived in government buildings since South Africa granted Rehoboth second tier status and was occupying the buildings with his armed supporters in defiance of a Supreme Court order to vacate the premises issued before independence in March.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/nambastchro.htm   (1599 words)

  
 FOURTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Caroline Elizabeth BOARDMAN (photo) was born on 8 Jun 1883 in South Africa, Cape Province, Barkly East.
She was buried in South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria.
She was married to Francois Louis Charles Biccard JUTA QC (son of Coenraad Jacobus JUTA Captain and Reinetta Johanna Margaretha BICCARD) in 1929 in South Africa, Transvaal, Potchefstroom.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /boardman/revwil/d34.html   (120 words)

  
 Actuarial Society of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The first fully qualified actuary in South Africa of whom there is record was James McGowan, BA, FIA, who became Cape Government Actuary of the former Cape Colony in 1890.
The Actuaries' Club of South Africa, comprising 26 members, was established in Cape Town in 1937.
In 1948, the Club evolved into the Actuarial Society of South Africa, an event which may be regarded as the profession's coming of age in South Africa.
www.assa.org.za   (171 words)

  
 Rediff On The Net Business Interview: Only a mixed economy can deliver the goods, says South Africa's telcom minister ...
A person of Indian origin -- his great grandmother migrated to South Africa in 1883 from Vellore, Tamil Nadu -- Naidoo cannot speak Tamil but is keen on retracing his roots to India.
Literacy rates in India and South Africa are virtually the same because we have a legacy of the apartheid and the attendant underdevelopment.
In South Africa, we have privatised the telecom sector and there is a partnership between the private and public companies.
www.rediff.com /business/1999/jan/15naidoo.htm   (1509 words)

  
 MOFFAT, Robert, South Africa, Congregational   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He began his career with the London Missionary Society (LMS) among the Khoikhoi of Namaqualand in South West Africa (1817), but soon moved to the northern Cape Colony to live among the Tlhaping.
In 1824 he founded a station at Kuruman, which long served as the northernmost European outpost in South Africa.
Moffat travelled widely within South Africa, but always retained his headquarters at Kuruman.
www.gospelcom.net /dacb/stories/southafrica/moffat_robert.html   (232 words)

  
 An Overview - North West Province South Africa
There are only 12 countries in the world that supply tap water that is fit to drink, and South Africa is one of them.
The North West Province of South Africa is bounded on the north by Botswana, on the south by the provinces of Free State and the Northern Cape, and on the northeast and east by the Limpopo Province and Gauteng.
In 1994 the population of the North West Province was estimated to be 3 669 349 (out of a total of an estimated 44 819 778 people living in South Africa); 65% of the people in the North West Provice live in the rural areas.
www.tourismnorthwest.co.za /about   (760 words)

  
 Adventist Review: Bible Transluation in Africa: The Adventist Connection
The first New Testament was printed and published in Africa in Geez in 1549, and the first biblical passage translated into an African language south of the Sahara was the Lord's Prayer in 1624.
The first complete Bible was in Malagasy (Madagascar) in 1835; in Tswana (Botswana and South Africa) in 1857; in Xhosa (South Africa) in 1859; in Zulu (also South Africa) in 1883; and in Ga (Ghana) in 1866.
In East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) there is also a rich legacy of Bible translations in both Swahili (Kenya and Tanzania) and Luganda (Uganda) dating to the arrival in 1844 of Johann Krapf, a German Lutheran missionary who traveled to East Africa.
www.adventistreview.org /2003-1502/story3.html   (1813 words)

  
 22/2/2002 -- Conserving South Africa's Wildlife Brick by Brick
My Acre of Africa is a new program sponsored by South African National Parks and the Peace Parks Foundation that offers people around the world the opportunity sponsor an acre of South Africa's Kruger National Park by buying a brick to be placed on a living map in the park.
My Acre of Africa is being conducted under the patronage of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who knows from experience that competing demands on government funds continue to result in drastic cuts in funding for conservation.
The Kruger National Park was established in 1898 by Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 through the Boer War till 1902.
forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=8136   (1010 words)

  
 Robert Moffat,1795-1883,Missionary to South Africa A short biography of Robert Moffat, Scottish missionary to South ...
With an intense desire to serve the Lord burning within him, he attended a missionary conference being held in Manchester, and there he felt the divine call to carry the Gospel to the heathen.
He was later accepted by the London Missionary Soci- ety, and at the age of 21, he sailed for Cape Town, South Af- rica.
In 1870, after 54 years in Africa, he and his wife returned to England, where one year later she died.
www.believersweb.org /view.cfm?ID=140   (387 words)

  
 Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa (Cape)
Please note that there are also other Lutheran Churches in South Africa.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa (Cape) or ELCSA(Cape) is historically a German church, but nearly all congregations also (or exclusively) offer services in English or Afrikaans.
ELCSA (Cape) is a member of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), the Lutheran Community of Southern Africa (LUCSA) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC).
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Meadows/7589/elcsc_en.html   (219 words)

  
 Dinizulu
Their orders were to stand by in case of war between British and Boer settlers in South Africa.
In December, 1887, General Smyth was named Commander-in-Chief of British forces in South Africa, and he asked Baden-Powell to go along as his aide-de-camp.
The Zulus were proud warriors and cattle-raisers who lived along the east coast of South Africa, mainly within the British colony of Natal.
www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-dinizulu.htm   (2627 words)

  
 THIRD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Judith Jane BOARDMAN was born on 5 Dec 1842 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Grahamstown.
She died on 27 Jun 1895 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Maclear.
She was married to John ROBERTS about 1863 in South Africa.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /boardman/revwil/d49.html   (107 words)

  
 Robert Moffat Scottish Missionary to South Africa - Christian Biography Resources
Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a Scottish pioneer missionary to South Africa who arrived in Cape Town in 1817.
He opened mission stations in the interior, translated the Bible into the language of the Bechuanas, and wrote two missionary books on South Africa: Labors and Scenes in South Africa and Rivers of Water in a Dry Place.
Born in New Windsor, England, she married Robert Moffat in December, 1819 at Cape Town, South Africa.
www.wholesomewords.org /biography/biorpmoffat.html   (162 words)

  
 Pamla, Charles, South Africa, Methodist Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He went on to become the first fl Methodist superintendent in South Africa and was also appointed as evangelist by the first Methodist conference in 1883.
This was achieved largely through the inspiration of American Methodist bishop William Taylor, who visited South Africa in 1866 and conducted evangelistic services; Pamla was his most able translator.
Their sermons bore a postmillennial mark, polygamy was condemned, and hearers were urged to seek salvation at the altar.
www.dacb.org /stories/southafrica/pamla2_charles.html   (262 words)

  
 Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was established in South Africa in 1883 when the first St John First Aid class was held in Grahamstown.
Its mission is to enable all South Africans to improve their health, safety and quality of life by providing training and community service.
Five levels of CPR training which are taught in accordance with the Resuscitation Council of South Africa.
www.stjohn.org.za /ambulance/whatisstjohnambulance.htm   (407 words)

  
 Elliot in South Africa
the statue of Oom (Uncle) Paul Kruger, patriarch, president of the South African Republic (from 1883 until his flight into exile in 1900) and who is regarded as the "Father of Afrikanerdom", dominates the square.
Paul Kruger was known as "The old Lion of Transvaal" Transvaal was one of the republics and later provinces of South Africa.
The turreted Palace of Justice was the scene of one of the most famous of South Africa's major political trials, the Rivonia Trial, during which Nelson Mandela and a number of major heroes of the struggle for racial freedom was charged with treason and subsequently incarcerated.
www.daisydreams.net /elliotsa2.htm   (398 words)

  
 Stauffer Library: Microfilm Indexes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Migration of Black Americans from the South to the northern industrial centers of the U.S. during WW1.
South Africa: The war of 1899-1902 and the Chinese labour question
Material copied from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library is in the form of articles from the leading journals of the time in Great Britain, the U.S., and Australia.
stauffer.queensu.ca /inforef/microfilm/microflm.htm   (2150 words)

  
 Book Review 20
Austen Roberts was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1883 en died in a traffic accident in 1948.
During the first half of this century he was the main ornithologist in South Africa.
Therefore I would not call this book a field guide but in South Africa it is still often used as one.
www.wildpicture.com /bookreviews/books/book20.htm   (561 words)

  
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McCay, Mary A. "Beyond Femaleness: Beryl Markham, Africa's Adopted Daughter in West With the Wind." (In) Egejuru, Phanuel A. and Katrak, Ketu H. (eds.).
Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa, With Explorations From Khartoum on the White Nile to the
To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa.
www.africabib.org /book/three.htm   (3749 words)

  
 Alphabetical Index: D TO J: Scott's End   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Donaldson, Elizabeth Johnston South Africa 1882.03.06 1097: Donaldson, Elizabeth Margaret South Africa 1948.10.15 716: donaldson, ethel 1880.01.25 1143:
Donaldson, Francis Malcolm South Africa 1880 1146: Donaldson, Francis Malcolm "Mannie" South Africa 1908 932: Donaldson, Frank Moorhead South Africa 1917.04.16 422: Donaldson, Gavin Patrick South Africa 1928.04.06 432: Donaldson, Genelle Ann South Africa 1967.05.07 419: Donaldson, Henriette S.A. Donaldson, Hilary Justin King South Africa 1913.05.06 369:
Donaldson, Walter Hilary South Africa 1883.03.29 1117: Donaldson, Walter Hilary William South Africa 1918.06.23 930: Donaldson, Walter Malcolm South Africa 1914.07.16 420: Donaldson, Walter Malcolm Wilson South Africa 1855.09.
members.freemail.absa.co.za /mike.sw/ALPHDTOJ.HTM   (1460 words)

  
 The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Scottish Regiments, 1st Battalion A&SH, National ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
fought in South Africa war of 1899-1902 under Lord Methuen at the battle of Modder River.
Formed part of the 3rd Highland Brigade, was active in the attack on the Boers at Magersfontein.
The 3rd and 4th Battalions (Militia) also served in South Africa.
www.it-serve.co.uk /argylls/service1stash1881.php   (160 words)

  
 Alphabetical Index: D TO J: Scott's End
Donaldson, Hilary Justin Leopold South Africa 1885.11.25 376: Donaldson, Hugh Leo South Africa 1939.07.02 617: Donaldson, Ian Gordon Stanislaus South Africa 1917.05.23 423: Donaldson, Ian Joseph South Africa 1944.11.31 1094: Donaldson, Ian Malcolm South Africa 1944.02.28 372:
Donaldson, Leopold Frederick (Boetie) S.A. Donaldson, Leslie S.A. Donaldson, Lindsay South Africa 1978.02.07 642: Donaldson, Lorna Ann South Africa 1969.06.27 1666:
Grieb, Alan Friedrich South Africa 1943.08.27 385: Grieb, Brendan South Africa 1983.01.24 492: Grieb, Cathlyn South Africa 1992.12.07 25:
mysite.mweb.co.za /residents/ms73/ALPHDTOJ.HTM   (2173 words)

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