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 FIFTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Francina Allida VENTER (photo) was born on 24 Aug 1900 in South Africa, Cape Colony, District Hay, "Dordrecht".
Martha WANDRAG was born on 15 Jul 1931 in South Africa, Cape Province, Griekwastad.
Letitia WANDRAG was born on 23 Apr 1945 in South Africa, Cape Province, Griekwastad.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /boardman/wandrag/d79.html   (250 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Chemical Chronology
South African leaders become aware of the tangible threat posed to their own troops by CW after battlefield use of chemical agents by the Germans on the Western Front.
South Africa becomes a party to the 1925 Geneva Gas Protocol banning the use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare.
South African [special operations] units fighting against guerrillas in Namibia and Angola, such as the 5th Reconnaissance commandos, the Koevoet ("Crowbar") unit, and the SADF SF's D[elta]40 unit [composed largely of Rhodesians], employ unconventional counterinsurgency tactics, including the use of chemical and biological agents.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Chemical/2446_2447.html   (10338 words)

  
 Wellington, South Africa - History, Wine and Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
From this grew a number of institutions, including the Boland College of Education, the oldest teacher training college in South Africa (1896), today the Wellington campus of the Cape Technikon; and the Huguenot College, which became a university college in 1916.
The district of Wellington still claims to be the hub of South Africa's fruit-growing and dried-fruit industries.
So were General J.B.M. Hertzog, prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1924-39), the Reverend M.L. de Villiers who, in May 1919, composed the music for Die Stem, which has been incorporated in South Africa's new national anthem, and Afrikaans poet and dramatist Adam Small.
about-south-africa.com /html/wellington.html   (780 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)

  
 E. Belfort Bax: South Africa Again (1896)
But anyway it rather spoils the legend of the hated and oppressing Matabele from whom the poor Mashonas were sighing for “protection” – at least for those of us who are not personally interested in Chartered Company shares.
Cecil Rhodes’s valuable person (in its capacity of the embodiment of true British pluck in South Africa) required the presence of the warriors who had hitherto been watching over them, were suddenly seized with the unaccountable desire to shake off the beneficent rule in favour of the cruel oppressor !
The origin of the British possessions in this part of South Africa dates from 1888, when Cecil Rhodes, Rudd, and Co., obtained their first concession to “dig gold” in Mashonaland.
www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1896/06/southafrica.htm   (738 words)

  
 SA flog a dead Zim horse - South Africa from Cricket365.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
South Africa posted 340/3 and lead Zimbabwe by 286 runs on the first day of the first Test in Cape Town.
To say that South Africa dominated the first day would be the biggest understatement in the history of Test cricket.
South Africa did so by wasting no time in bowling Zimbabwe out after lunch.
www.cricket365.com /teams/south_africa/story_15115.shtml   (515 words)

  
 South Africa Coins - Biggest Africa resource on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
South Africa has had four coin series and four Mints in little over a century of indigenous coins and Mints.
South Africa has introduced new coins and notes, but old coins are still...
South African coin the rare and sought after gold silver and bronze coins and token coins...
africa.se-punch.com /index.php?k=south-africa-coins   (973 words)

  
 GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg220 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornelia Johanna Louw was born on 27 Jan 1916 in Woodstock, Cape, South Africa.
Esme Marie Geldenhuys was born on 24 Aug 1941 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.
Johanna Susanna Magdalena Grobler was born on 22 Jun 1915 in Utrecht, Cape, South Africa.
members.freemail.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg220.htm   (516 words)

  
 GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg26 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Catharina Maria Francina Cecilia Smit was born in South Africa.
Maria Wilhelmina Joubert [Parents] was born on 29 Dec 1822 in Klapmuts, Cape, South Africa.
Johanna Catharina Krige [Parents] was born on 25 Jul 1769 in Cape, South Africa.
members.freemail.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg26.htm   (671 words)

  
 South African Military History Society - Journal- EDITOR'S LETTER-BOX
The British team which toured South Africa in 1896 was probably unlike any international rugby team before or since.
R. Mullins was later a medical practitioner and settled in South Africa.
During the South African War of 1899-1902 he served as a civil surgeon with the British Forces and from 1917-18 he was a captain in the S.A.M.C. in France.
rapidttp.com /milhist/vol031ed.html   (871 words)

  
 BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY STAMPS : Recent Acquisitions 6
1896 large Arms, imperforate plate proofs of the adopted vignette.
1896 3d large Arms, die I. Handstamped with italic 'Specimen' diagonally in fl (Samuel R4).
1896 1/- large Arms die I. Lower left corner block of four, margins reduced.
www.rhodesia.co.za /ra_bsa.html   (2796 words)

  
 1896 in South Africa - Wikipedia
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See also: 1895 in South Africa, other events of 1896, 1897 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
South Africa's first school of mines is opened in Kimberley (later to form the core of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_in_South_Africa   (153 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hottentots
The Hottentot is one of three tribes of South Africa which may be divided — Bantus, Hottentots, and Bushmen.
When the first Europeans (the Portuguese) came to South Africa, they found what is now Cape Colony divided between Bushmen and Hottentots.
THEAL, History of South Africa (London, 1903); BROWN, The Portuguese in South Africa (London, 1896); BLEEK, Comparative Grammar of South African Languages (Cape Town, 1899); Cape Monthly Magazine (January and February, 1858 and 1862); TORREND, Comparative Grammar of South African Bantu Languages, introd.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07497a.htm   (962 words)

  
 KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 1896-1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Location (home) is an ongoing theme that is being investigated in relationship to re-establishing and re-examining identity.
The land is a highly contested metaphor in post-colonial Africa.
I have conflated the land and the body by developing a medium that simulates human skin and the surface of the land.
www.andriesbotha.co.za /kzn.html   (179 words)

  
 nertë || tolkien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (pronounced Tol-Keen) was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
His father died the following year on February 15, 1896 in South Africa.
Raised by his mother until the age of twelve when his mother died, Mabel Tolkien taught both her sons the art of calligraphy and illustration.
ewlyn.hispeed.com /nerte/tolkien.html   (319 words)

  
 William Wheeler Marsh (de Marisco) 18??-1896  South Africa then Switzerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
William Wheeler Marsh, George's oldest son, was born before 1837 in Saldanha Bay and died on 1896 at the house of Monsieur Graf, Chardonne, Canton de Vonde, Switzerland, at the age of 66.
The cause of his death is given in a letter written by Monsieur Graf as stomach cancer.
In the estate file of William Wheeler Marsh is a letter written to Egbert by a Mr.
www.jjhc.info /marshwilliam1896.htm   (321 words)

  
 Cars in South Africa  -  Classic, Antique & Vintage Cars
As early as 1896, in what is believed to have been the first car in the Southern
a Benz "Velo" from Benz and Co of Mannheim Germany to South Africa.
South Africa as well as various racing circuits in Europe.
www.dyna.co.za /cars.htm   (671 words)

  
 FIFTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was married to Alice SOUTHEY (daughter of Richard Gilmour Rubidge SOUTHEY and Hendrina VAN_NIEKERK) in 1896 in South Africa.
She was born about 1875 in South Africa.
Antony Brian MORKEL was born in South Africa.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /boardman/revwil/d1286.html   (56 words)

  
 Francis Leslie Ryall, b: 1896 - South Africa,
Marr: AFT 1925 - Durban, Natal, South Africa
Died: 21 DEC 1969 - Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Died: 12 DEC 1963 - Durban, Natal, South Africa
homepage.ntlworld.com /p.downer/FamilyTree/gp219.htm   (68 words)

  
 South Africa: History
, 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
Impressions Of South Africa: Chapter X - The Kafirs: Their History And Institutions (History of the World)
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861191.html   (2863 words)

  
 Mercedes-Benz South Africa - History
The first car to be imported into South Africa, a Benz Velo makes its appearance.
April 19 Mercedes-Benz of South Africa (Pty) Limited becomes DaimlerChrysler South Africa (Pty) Limited (DCSA).
A total of 335000 Mercedes-Benz Passenger cars were built at the East London plant since 1958 up to the end of 2000.
www.mercedes-benz.co.za /Introduction/history.asp   (165 words)

  
 Biographical Notes on Officers of the Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
War Service: Jowaki, 1877-8; South Africa, 1879; Afghanistan, 1879-80; Egypt, 1882; Chitral, 1895; North West Frontier, 1897-8.
Major Molony’s King’s South Africa medal for service in the Boer War is also in the author’s collection.
Died of enteric fever at Kimberley, South Africa, 5-6-1900.
members.aol.com /reubique/officers.htm   (2918 words)

  
 Thesis 2004: Ethiopians and Rastafari -- Haile Sellassie WWW, HIM Site
Garvey saw the emergence of a king in Africa as the fulfillment of the vision of the psalmist, who prophesied that Princes would come out of Egypt and Ethiopia who would stretch out her hands unto God (Psalm 68:31).
The Church of Africa south of the Sahara has acquired and added to the many Christian verbal transmogrifications that came originally from the north.
Ethiopia and the mythology of Ethiopianism Ethiopianism and the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa, 1896-1912.
afronord.tripod.com /him/thesis.html   (5908 words)

  
 PEACH Line in South Africa
It would appear that the first PEACH to come South Africa was GEORGE PEACH with the 1820 BRITISH SETTLERS.
A second PEACH, my grandfather JOHN JOSEPH PEACH came to SOUTH AFRICA during 1896 as a BRITISH officer to help put down some sort of uprising by a local fl nation.
Members of the PEACH Family in the U.K and South Africa formed a syndicate in an endeavor to recover the PEACH fortune but to no avail.
home1.gte.net /tpeach/Genealogy/SouthAfrica.htm   (262 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:
211: Ernst, Johannes Augustinus South Africa 1884.12.28 1225: Ernst, Magdalena Jacoba Maria South Africa 1887.01.07 727: Ernst, Maria Magdalena South Africa 1870.07.30 728: Ernst, Petrus Gerhardus South Africa 1878.07.31 210: Ernst, Samuel Veit South Africa 1829.10.08 717: Ernst, Samuel Vyt Oertel South Africa 1880.02.07 367:
mysite.mweb.co.za /residents/ms73/ALPHDTOJ.HTM   (2173 words)

  
 Alphabetical Index: D TO J: Scott's End   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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, Leopold Frederick (Boetie) S.A. Donaldson, Lindsay South Africa 1978.02.07 642: Donaldson, Lorna Ann South Africa 1969.06.27 649: Donaldson, Malcolm South Africa 1945 ??
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)

  
 LHCMA Research guides: Sources for the period 1872-1914
Papers relating to his service in South Africa, 1879-1880, including correspondence with FM Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, High Commissioner of Cyprus and Natal,concerning operations against the Zulu king Cetewayo (Cetshwayo), Zulu War, 1879.
Letters to his family regarding his service in the First Boer War, South Africa, as Lt, 92nd (Gordon Highlanders), and letter, 21 Oct 1881, to Maj Gen Martin Andrew Dillon, Assistant Military Secretary, War Office, giving an account of the Battle of Majuba Hill, 27 Feb 1881, in which Hamilton was severely wounded.
Personal correspondence from Gen Sir Redvers Henry Buller, Commander-in-Chief South Africa, notably a letter commiserating with Grant on the death of his son, Robert Josceline Grant, at Spion Kop during the Second Boer War, and discussing Buller's part in future operations, 1900.
www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/guides/p1914.htm   (3016 words)

  
 South Africa Silver Near   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Limited : £2.00 1 st after winning air mail, £1.70 registered Africa 1 Europe: £1.70 class mail; mail; World-wide: South and Canada : £1.00 to let Bafana Bafana edition.
20 cents minted in cents 22 I have circling the to mention 2 dollars and Africa's is is All are 2 10 obtained, with of and Zimbabwe AU->BU.
Description SOUTH ARABIAN COIN 1964 SOUTH AFRICAN HALF CROWN 1976 SILVER RAND - SOUTH AFRICA - BUC SOUTH AFRICA 1956 CROWN IN NICE HIGH GRADE SOUTH AFRICA REPUBLIC 1897 SIXPENCE VF 1898 South Africa - One pond - Zuid Afrika Rand (South Africa) 1969 in UNC grade.
www.mspac.com /pages/en_US/itname2003-533-South-Africa-Silver-Near.php   (214 words)

  
 Africa
1994 South Africa reclaims its seat in U.N. 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
Rosenkowitz, Cape Town South Africa, 1st sextuplets to survive born to Sue
1970 Olaf Kolzig, born in Johannesbourg, South Africa, NHL goalie for the Washington Capitals
www.brainyhistory.com /topics/a/africa.html   (6200 words)

  
 Adherents.com
It arose in the eleventh century, flourishing in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries before being brutally suppressed by the INQUISITION.
the All Africa Conference of Churches, comprising 114 member churches from 33 African countries, met in Alexandria and issued a contemporary African Confession of Faith...
Membership: Not reported: In 1896 there were 126 churches and 2,302 members.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_18.html   (2137 words)

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