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  Modern History Sourcebook: A. L. Geyer: Case for Apartheid 1953
You are familiar with the cry that came floating over the ocean from the West-a cry that "colonialism" is outmoded and pernicious, a cry that is being vociferously echoed by a certain gentleman in the East.
South Africa is no more the original home of its fl Africans, the Bantu than it is of its white Africans.
South Africa is the only independent country in the world in which white ­ people are outnumbered by fl people.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1953geyer.html   (912 words)

  
 National Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Coloureds (South Africans of mixed White and non-White ancestry) were removed from the Common Roll of Cape Province in 1953.
In a move unrecognized by the rest of the world, the former German colony of South West Africa (now Namibia), which South Africa had occupied in World War I, was effectively incorporated into South Africa as a fifth province, with seven members elected to represent it in the South African Parliament.
Another goal was achieved in 1960, when the white population voted to sever South Africa's ties with the British Monarchy and establish a republic, which led to South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth.
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 South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
South Africa's population was estimated at 40.6 million in 1996 (Stats SA 1996), of which approximately 46% was rural and 54% urban (according to the World factbook the July 2006 population estimate was 44,187,637 with a minus 0.4% growth rate).
South Africa's national commercial cattle herd is estimated at 13.5 million, including various international breeds of dairy and beef-cattle, as well as indigenous breeds such as the Afrikander and Nguni.
South Africa also possesses a rich and diverse wildlife resource, and almost 10% of the country is designated as National Parks and formal conservation areas, but a considerable proportion of the wildlife exists outside formally proclaimed conservation areas.
www.fao.org /ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/southafrica/southafrica.htm   (5010 words)

  
 Robinson; RSA: COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP IN THE RICHTERSVELD NATIONAL PARK IN SOUTH AFRICA - AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
South Africa, however, lagged behind the USA in establishing protected areas and it was only on 13 June 1894, with the proclamation of the Pongola Reserve, situated near the present town of Piet Retief that the first publicly owned game reserve in Africa was created.
South Africa is bowed under a heavy burden of a flawed social contract in the immediate past.
Trends in South Africa's social, economic, political, and cultural fields have in the past dictated the development and structure of national parks in South Africa and will have a major impact on the way in which national parks will be established and managed in the future.
www.cdr.dk /sscafrica/rob-rsa.htm   (6552 words)

  
 South Africa: History
The Republic of South Africa and Racial Strife
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.
South Africa invaded Angola in 1975 in an attempt to crush mounting opposition in exile, but the action was a complete failure.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861191.html   (2863 words)

  
 South Africa, Apartheid and Terror excerpted from the book State Terrorism and the United States From Counterinsurgency ...
The South African military began to play an increasing role in domestic security, and the military way of destroying the enemy was transferred from the external to the internal and became more and more common practice within the country.
In 1986 one hundred and forty thousand children under the age of five in these two countries lost their lives because of South Africa's "war and destabilization" campaign, what we refer to as its "total strategy." The number of deaths was expected to increase in 1987.
South African Destabilization, a report initiated by a task force appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, provides an estimate of the total economic and demographic cost to the victims in neighboring countries of the implementation of South Africa's total strategy.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Terrorism/SAfrica_STATUS.html   (5471 words)

  
 South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The principal vegetation types of South Africa are illustrated in Figure 6 by this generalised image of the Acocks (1988) map of the Veld Types of South Africa.
The Grassland Society of Southern Africa (GSSA) is the professional organization representing the discipline in South Africa.
The Composition and Persistence of Poverty in Rural South Africa.
www.fao.org /ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/southafrica/SouthAfrica2.htm   (7246 words)

  
 Governor General of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Britain was represented in South Africa by a Governor-General who was also High Commissioner and whose responsibilities extended to the adjacent colonies of Basutoland and Swaziland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
The Governor-General of South Africa flew a flag with the Tudor Crown Royal Crest on a dark blue field from 1931-1953 and thereafter with a St. Edward's Crown Royal Crest from 1953 until 30 May 1961.
The introduction of this new flag coincided with the arrival of a new Governor-General, the Earl of Clarendon, in South Africa.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/za_gg.html   (1080 words)

  
 Governor General of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
When the Union of South Africa came into being on 31 May 1910, it was as a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire.
Britain was represented in South Africa by a Governor-General who was also High Commissioner and whose responsibilities extended to the adjacent colonies of Basutoland and Swaziland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
The Governor-General of South Africa flew a flag with the Tudor Crown Royal Crest on a dark blue field from 1931-1953 and thereafter with a St. Edward's Crown Royal Crest from 1953 until 30 May 1961.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/za_gg.html   (1082 words)

  
 The Muller Family in South Africa
Anna was born in Sutherland, South Africa, died on 27 Jun 1980, and was buried in Sutherland, South Africa.
Maryna Adriana Conradie was born on 21 Jun 1936 in Laingsburg, South Africa.
Christina was born on 10 Jan 1910 in Wolwedans, District Sutherland, South Africa and was buried in Komsberg, District Sutherland, South Africa.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~muller/d1.htm   (4789 words)

  
 South Africa - Country Brief
In 1999 Thabo Mbeki became South Africa's second democratically elected president; he was re-elected on April 14, 2004 in a landslide for the ANC.
South Africa's income aggregates hide extreme differences in incomes and wealth between the white and non-white populations.
South Africa was a founding member of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in 1944.
web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/SOUTHAFRICAEXTN/0,,menuPK:368086~pagePK:141132~piPK:141107~theSitePK:368057,00.html   (1138 words)

  
 South Africa's political parties - SouthAfrica.info
The South African Native National Congress was founded in 1912 with the aim to bring together Africans to defend their rights and fight for freedom.
In 1953 he took up a position as chief of the Buthelezi clan, and in 1970 was appointed head of the KwaZulu Territorial Authority in terms of the apartheid-era Bantu Administration Act.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) was relaunched as an underground party in 1953 after its predecessor, the Communist Party of South Africa, was banned in 1950.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/constitution/polparties.htm   (2787 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: The Republic of South Africa Electoral System
The South Africa Act was the result of a political compromise between the two major white ethno-linguistic groups - the Afrikaners, descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch, French and German settlers, who speak Afrikaans (a derivative of 17th-century Dutch) and comprise the majority of South Africa's white population; and the English speakers.
Suzman's courageous defense of South Africa's disenfranchised non-white majority earned her worldwide recognition, as well as the bitter enmity of the NP, whose leaders desperately wanted to convey to the rest of the world the notion that all whites were united behind the government.
The proposed constitution, enacted by Parliament as the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act of 1983, was submitted to a referendum of the white electorate, held on November 2, 1983.
electionresources.org /za/system   (8482 words)

  
 “Traditional” Dictatorship: One Party State in KwaZulu Homeland Threatens Transition to Democracy (Human ...
In Natal, as elsewhere in South Africa, the practice of segregation for South Africans of African descent established by the British was refined by the National Party government after its victory in the 1948 election.
One of the problems facing the KZP is certainly that it is understaffed in relation to the population and area that it is expected to patrol, as is the case for the police force in South Africa generally.
Speaking to Africa Watch on January 27, 1993, Gavin Woods, Executive Director of the Inkatha Institute, stated that he had not heard specific refutations of the ANC's allegations and that the ANC might therefore perhaps be given "the benefit of the doubt" regarding allegations of police misbehavior in Esikhawini.
hrw.org /reports/1993/southafrica2   (17560 words)

  
 Marillier Descendants Genealogy - pafg06.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Albany thickets (AT1201)
The Eastern Cape of South Africa contains high plant species richness due to the presence of different phytochoria and species at the ends of their distribution ranges.
South African thickets are similar in structure and generic composition to the thicket communities found throughout tropical and subtropical Africa (White 1983; Cowling 1984).
Du Toit, A.L. The geology of South Africa.
www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at1201_full.html   (3157 words)

  
 Penny Siopis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Penny Siopis is a South African artist whose works are evolving around questions raised by the changes in the South African history.
At the current South African market places it all comes together, the stuff of those who left the country in haste, displayed for the eyes of those, who stay and grow up in the country, and those who entered the country with new hopes an fears.
The installation is evolving in an inheritance to be.
project.base.nl /clients/gatefoundation.nl/Artists/Siopis.htm   (487 words)

  
 The Baha'i Faith in South Africa
The earliest known Bahá'í activity in South Africa was the holding of Bahá'í meetings in 1911 at the home of Agnes Cook in Sea Point, Cape Town.
Because of the system of apartheid practised and legislated in South Africa, the Bahá'í Faith, the principles of which include the Oneness of Mankind, was taught for 32 years on a one-to-one basis mainly without publicity.
Hundreds of interviews were conducted with a cross-section of national and local leaders from the then President of South Africa to parliamentarians, homeland leaders, the media, civic dignitaries and non-governmental organisations.
bci.org /southafrica/history.html   (1519 words)

  
 1954 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1953 in South Africa, other events of 1954, 1955 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
1 May - The South Africa national football team beats the Israel national football team 2-1 at the Rand Stadium, Johannesburg in a friendly match
George Bizos is admitted as a lawyer to the South African Bar
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1954_in_South_Africa   (189 words)

  
 AIDS in South Africa Conference
The AIDS crisis in Africa is staggering and is one of the most important social and public health problems in the world today.
Only 10% of the world's population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region is home to two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive people, and it has suffered more than 80% of all AIDS deaths.
As South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world and because of Wellesley's increasing linkages with South Africa, this conference will focus on the special issues surrounding the AIDS crisis in that country.
www.wellesley.edu /PNE/Events/AIDSConference/AIDSinSAfrica.html   (1368 words)

  
 A special report on the politics of AIDS and HIV in South Africa
In fact some dissidents were quick to respond to a request by Mbeki to come to South Africa and circulated details of their private conversations through e-mail.
She is married to ANC veteran and former South African High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Mendi Msimang.
Prior to coming to South Africa he had worked for a range of medical research laboratories: Laboratorios Almirall (Barcelona Spain); Clinical Research Foundation (London) as part of the Boehringer Ingelheim Group of Companies; and Roussel Laboratories (London and Paris).
www.dogonvillage.com /Tidbits/aidsafrica1.htm   (2349 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)

  
 About 3M South Africa: Sub Sahara
Established in 1953, 3M South Africa has grown from a sales and marketing organization to include the manufacture of a variety of industrial and consumer products.
3M South Africa's Sub-Saharan Africa/ Export Group is responsible for 3M operations in Botswana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia and Zimbabwe, as well as export operations into other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
African countries that are currently the direct responsibility of 3M South Africa's Sub-Sahara/Export Group are: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
www.3m.com /intl/za/sub_sahara.html   (195 words)

  
 South African Orders, Decoration & Medals ABC
Queen - From 1837 to 1901 and again from 1952 to 1961, South Africa's head of state - and fount of honour - was the British queen.
Her effigy was depicted on the Queen's Medal for Bravery and the Queen's Police Medal, and her E II R cipher was displayed on the reverses of all the post-1952 defence force decorations and medals.
As South Africa had established her own honours system, this medal was given precedence as a South African award, even though it originated in the United Kingdom.
www.geocities.com /militaf/4-pqr.htm   (3555 words)

  
 1953 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1952 in South Africa, other events of 1953, 1954 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
9 May - The South African Liberal Party is formed in Cape Town by Alan Paton
22 November - The South Africa national football team loses to the Portugal national football team 1-3 at the National Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal in a friendly match
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 The Nation, 10/24/1953 - Report on South Africa by Vayo, J. Alvarez Del
...Malan and the other Nationalist leaders in South Africa should realize that, politically speaking, the situation they have created is sure to explode one day and destroy their regime...
...Malan and the South African delegation have repeatedly asserted that the treatment of non-whites in the Union is ho business of the United Nations, the commission had to make clear in what way South African policy'violates the letter and spirit of the Charter...
...The racial unrest in.South Africa is an old story 'but one which, is insufficiently known, although it has been an international issue since last year, when the Nationalist government- of South Africa, defying the public opinion of the world and, later on, the warnings and reproaches of the United Nations, made apartheid its major policy...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v177i0017_06.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Flemmer South Africa Who's Who
In the case of the Flemmer family in South Africa, there are some of the publications that give an insight into their lives.
She is the granddaughter of ANNA LOUISE6 FLEMMER (CHRISTIAN LUDVIG5) born 28 January 1874 in Cradock South Africa, and died 22 February 1941 in Observatory Johannesburg.
My adventure began when I was born in Johannesburg South Africa… I remained here for the next 7 years of my life, which to the day had been the longest I have lived in a single country if you can believe that…well I'm only 20 now.
www.flemmerfamily.co.za /who.html   (20412 words)

  
 The Nation, 02/21/1953 - South Africa: Who Provoked the Riots? by Warner, Harry S.
With the aim of breaking all resistance, native, colored, or white, segregation as the dominant factor in South African life, Justice Minister C.R. Swart has introduced a bill which would give the South African government the right to suspend virtually all law in cases of loosely defined emergencies.
Everyone knows what nationalists of South Africa mean when they speak of "emergencies." In the spring of last year the non-whites of South Africa, with the support and sympathy of democratic-minded whites, launched a campaign of passive resistance to the apartheid laws.
...Everyone knows what Malan and his Nationalists mean when they speak of "emergencies" In the spring of last year the non-whites of South Africa, with the support and sympathy of democraticminded whites, launched a campaign of passive resistance to the apartheid laws...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v176i0008_10.htm   (2263 words)

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