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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)

  
 1959 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1958 in South Africa, other events of 1959, 1960 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
Lucas Cornelius Steyn is appointed the 10th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
Charles Robberts Swart is appointed the 11th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1959_in_South_Africa   (192 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu - Congress and the Africanists, Africa South, July-September 1959
The principal target of their attacks is the broad humanism of the African National Congress, which claims equality but not domination for the African people, and regards South Africa as being big enough and rich enough to sustain all its people, of whatever origin, in friendship and peace.
Africa and its peoples have suffered too much in the past from racialism and the "master race" ideology to adopt any such dangerous doctrines.
But in a country like South Africa, where the Whites dominate everything, and where ruthless laws are ruthlessly administered and enforced, the natural tendency is one of growing hostility towards Europeans.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/sisulu/africanists0959.html   (2832 words)

  
 COMMENTARY ON RACE IN SOUTH AFRICA
South African scholars have been slow to focus their research efforts on the subject of race, producing a lag between local academic work and international scholarship.
It is interesting that in the post-Apartheid non-racial society of South Africa, whites still reject the appellation “African.” It is even more interesting to watch some embrace this internally vilified identity in international arenas, as they strategically seek cover their political, economic and social gains under apartheid.
Underpinning this was the position of South Africa in the British Empire and Commonwealth in the first half of the twentieth century, and the dominant role South Africa has played in British calculations about Southern Africa for much of the century.
www.jendajournal.com /vol1.1/errata.html   (4371 words)

  
 ELCA Global Mission Bibliography: South Africa
Brief history of the Lutheran church in the South-Eastern region of South Africa, or Zululand.
Special issue on South Africa commemorating 100 years of mission work since the arrival of Hans Schreuder in Port Natal in 1844.
Pederson, Pernie C. Mission in South Africa: Studies in the Beginning and Development of the Indigenous Lutheran Church in the Union of South Africa.
www.elca.org /archives/dgm/southafrica.html   (1336 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 1994 the ANC adopted the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) as a policy framework to guide it in transforming South Africa from a divided society to one that provides equal opportunities for all its citizens.
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)

  
 Apartheid, South Africa - Wander the Planet .net
Officially started in 1948 when the Afrikaner Nationalist party came to power, South African Apartheid was a system of racial laws devised to "Preserve and promote a white majority over a fl majority." There was racial discrimination and separation before that time but from that year onwards the government passed laws to enforce it.
And it was a lie that the South African government, between 1948 and 1994, was a legitimate democracy.
In this way, the government strips millions of fls of their South African citizenship and forces them to become residents of their new "homelands." Blacks are now considered foreigners in white-controlled South Africa, and need passports to enter.
www.wandertheplanet.net /SouthAfrica/apartheid.htm   (946 words)

  
 Water Stress in Sub-Saharan Africa - Council on Foreign Relations
Another disparity is evident within the sub-continent: Of the 980 large dams in sub-Saharan Africa, around 589 are in South Africa, whereas Tanzania, a country with nearly the same land mass and population, only has two large dams.
Southern-Africa and northern sub-Saharan Africa, in particular the strip across the continent along and north of the Sahel region in West Africa, suffer the most, says Mark Giordano.
The 1959 Nile Basin agreement preserved British colonial interests in Sudan after Egyptian independence in 1922 and declaration of the Egyptian Republic in 1953, but Egypt and Sudan are the only actors with power in the allocation of Nile resources.
www.cfr.org /publication/11240/water_stress_in_subsaharan_africa.html   (1944 words)

  
 Verwoerd's Grim Plot
Moreover, in South Africa, we all know full well that no Chief can retain his post unless he submits to Verwoerd, and many Chiefs who sought the interest of their people be fore position and self -advancement have, like President Lutuli, been deposed.
Thereafter a National Convention of all the people of South Africa could be summoned and numerous suggestions of the democratic changes, that should be brought about, including the suggestions of Professor du Plessis, could form the subject matter of the Convention.
In the light of these facts it Is sheer nonsense to talk of South Africa as being about to take a "supremely positive step towards placing Africans on the road to self-government- or of having given them more powers to rule themselves.
www.africawithin.com /mandela/verwoerd_0559.htm   (3734 words)

  
 History of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The South African museum's site seeks "to ensure that the history and the memory of forced removals in South Africa endures.....its mission is the documentation and imaginative reconstruction of the history, labouring life and cultural heritage of the District Six community." Has a background to the museum, history of the church, etc. http://www.districtsix.co.za/
From the Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre, at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.
Their microfiche collection, South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989 (2,500 documents on 439 microfiche, cost U.S. The collection is held by at least 23 U.S. libraries and Oxford U.; check RLIN or the OCLC World Catalog for a list of these.
www.empereur.com /Africa/history/safrica.html   (5401 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In spite of the many developments that progressively stripped all fls of basic rights in South Africa during his lifetime, and which effectively rendered this goal unrealizable, Jabavu continued to cling to the Cape ideal.
Like many elite, mission-educated South African fls of his age, Jabavu was unable to jettison his ideological commitment to polite deputations in favor of grass-roots radicalism.
She demonstrates a strong grasp of the tensions surrounding his public lives and manages to present an impartial assessment of his foibles and failures as well as his strengths and accomplishments.
web.africa.ufl.edu /africa/asq/v1/1/6.htm   (786 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
South Africa’s Future in which he argued that major changes were needed.
South Africa’s Future was published only a few years ago, already some of the stars in Ginsberg’s firmament have dimmed.
If the constitutive rules of a commercial society go far to explain why South Africa failed to achieve the ideals of the Freedom Charter, then similar failures to move from dependent capitalism to social democracy in other countries might be easier to explain than has often been thought.
www.howardri.org /dilemmas10.htm   (7567 words)

  
 THE PAC CONFERENCE - 1959
In Searchlight South Africa, No 7, we printed a review of Benjamin Pogrund's book on Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and the Pan Africanist Congress, together with Jack Halpern's account of the conference of the ANC in March 1958 when the split was imminent.
1959 is the year of African's freedom, we do not care what might happen, we are going to die all for our Africa.
We are criminally oppressed men and sons of Africa are being forced to carry passes wherever they go, just like a dog when is fastened a ticket [collar?] on the neck.
www.marxists.org /archive/hirson/1959/pac-conference.htm   (960 words)

  
 South African History South Africa History
Examples of video clips: visit to South Africa of the Royal Family, Commonwealth conferences, the 1964 OAU meeting in Tanzania, 1967 African leaders meeting in Kampala, the 1966 assassination of H. Verwoerd (President of South Africa).
Slavery in South Africa as practised in the Cape Colony between 1658 and 1834.
The South African historical maps include the former homelands and an 1885 map of South Africa.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsahistory.html   (8603 words)

  
 Appeal to British People to Boycott South Africa - 1959   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Next year it is proposed to conduct a limited boycott of South African produce in Britain for a period of one month.
The boycott is a protest against apartheid, the removal of political rights, the colour bar in industry, the extension of passes to African women and the low wages paid to Non-White workers.
This appeal is therefore directed to the people of Great Britain to strike a blow for freedom and justice in South Africa and for those whom the State would keep in continuing subjection in the Union.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/lutuli/boycott59.html   (418 words)

  
 Africa
Offshore, rich, but fragile, coral reefs stretch from the Horn of Africa to the coasts of Kenya and Tanzania.
To face these challenges, the Wildlife Conservation Society has worked for decades with Africa’s governments, institutions and people to preserve its natural heritage for both wildlife and humans.
In 1959, biologist George Schaller pioneered studies of mountain gorillas in the Congo.
www.wcs.org /international/Africa   (205 words)

  
 World Golf Hall of Fame Member Profile
Gary Player was born Nov. 1, 1935, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the third of three children to Harry and Muriel Player.
In his trademark all-fl outfits (inspired by his lifelong love of westerns) with body trim and biceps bulging from a weight-lifting program and high-fiber diet that were both 30 years ahead of their time-and with a bunker game that is considered the greatest ever developed-he willed himself to victory.
He won the 1959 British Open at Muirfield for his first major, made the 1961 Masters his second and the 1962 PGA at Aronimink his third.
www.wgv.com /hof/member.php?member=1093   (1179 words)

  
 extentxt - pafg261 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She died in Aug 1911 in Durban, South Africa.
She married Louis (Sandwell) Jacobson in 1905 in Durban, South Africa.
She died on 16 Mar 1978 in Durban, South Africa.
www.krotman.co.il /extentxt/pafg261.htm   (501 words)

  
 PUL History Resources + Primary sources for historical research: Africa
Consists mainly of copies of letters sent by the Secretary of the Navy to agents of the United States stationed on the northwest coast of Africa for the purpose of receiving fls freed by the capture of slave ships, and letters and reports received by the Secretary of the Navy from these agents.
This collection documents U.S. policy related to South Africa, using declassified documents from the Dept. of State and other U.S. government agencies.
The American Committee on Africa was formed in the 1950's to address the decolonization of Africa, and to give a voice in the United States to fl Africans.
libweb.princeton.edu /help/research/history/microforms/africa.php   (1401 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - South African anti-apartheid activist and poet Kunene dies
He left South Africa in 1959 and went to Britain, where he played a pivotal role in the founding of the anti-apartheid movement.
Kunene became the chief representative in Europe and Africa for the African National Congress and is said to have persuaded artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Henry Moore to donate works for an exhibition to raise funds for the ANC.
That year UNESCO named him Africa's poet laureate, and in 2005 he was made South Africa's poet laureate.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/09/19/mazisi-kunene-obit.html?ref=rss   (1228 words)

  
 HRWIFF: Film Archive - The Land Is White, the Seed Is Black   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The impact the end of apartheid has had on South Africa has thus far been primarily measured in national terms.
This lyrical fl-and-white documentary explores that change on a more personal level by following the return from exile in 1994 of the filmmaker's father, a history teacher accused of "communist practices" (a quote from Karl Marx was found amongst his teaching materials) and forced to flee in the 1960s.
Koto Bolofo was born in Basutoland, South Africa in 1959 and currently lives in France.
www.hrw.org /iff-97/filmae/bolo.html   (185 words)

  
 WORLD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ARCHIVE - zaju5904   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CAPETOWN, South Africa, April 25 -- Judicial caning of offenders, down to 8-year-old boys, has been a recurrent issue in the Union of South Africa for several weeks.
The reaction in the Netherlands induced the South African Embassy in The Hague to distribute the official version of what had happened.
This included a statement by the boys' mother that she was satisfied with the magistrate's finding.
www.corpun.com /zaju5904.htm   (416 words)

  
 The Ants of Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Kenya south to South Africa and Namibia - niveosetosus
I strongly suspect that this was a misidentification, as the type locations of all but one Myrmipiromis species are from South Africa or Madagascar; the exception is from Sudan.
The dorsal pronotum in both is clearly bordered on the anterior edges, both being similar to fulvopilosus De Geer (from South Africa).
antbase.org /ants/africa/myrmopiromis.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / South Africa
Source: Based on information from South Africa, South African Communication Service, South Africa Yearbook, 1995, Pretoria, 1996, 108; and Africa South of the Sahara, 1997, London, 1996, 905.
Source: Based on information from South Africa, South African Communication Service, South Africa Yearbook, 1995, Pretoria, 1996, 124; and Africa South of the Sahara, 1997, London, 1996, 906.
Olifant 1A and 1B manufactured in South Africa; derived from Centurion (Britain).
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/south_africa/za_appen.html   (738 words)

  
 South Africa Appendix. Tables
Source: Based on information from South Africa, South African CommunicationService, South Africa Yearbook, 1995, Pretoria, 1996, 224; and AfricaSouth of the Sahara, 1997, London, 1996, 908.
Source: Based on information from South Africa, South African CommunicationService, South Africa Yearbook, 1995, Pretoria, 1996, 108; and AfricaSouth of the Sahara, 1997, London, 1996, 905.
Source: Based on information from South Africa, South African CommunicationService, South Africa Yearbook, 1995, Pretoria, 1996, 124; and AfricaSouth of the Sahara, 1997, London, 1996, 906.
www.country-studies.com /south-africa/appendix.-tables.html   (566 words)

  
 1960 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1959 in South Africa, other events of 1960, 1960 in South African sport, 1961 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
3 February - Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town, receiving a stony reception.
5 October - whites vote in a referendum, to sever South Africa's last links with the British monarchy and become a republic
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_in_South_Africa   (371 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - John Coull
He was born on November 12, 1959 in South Africa.
He said, “I couldn’t see a good future for my family in South Africa.” He gave up his job in South Africa and came here for a couple of months to find a job.
Then my dad went back to South Africa and helped my mom pack up our belongings, and we moved to America.
www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=coull_mms_ul   (796 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)

  
 SOUTH AFRICA
Faithfull copy of the original South African released LP with a magnificent colour cover photo of the group in action which you missed out on with the UK CDN1005 version.
Although he initially sang in the traditional Zulu mbaganga style, his move to reggae in 1984 was sparked by his quest to express his anger against the oppression of apartheid and inspired by the contoversial lyrics of Peter Tosh.
This the latest album from South Africa's top Gospel songstress which brings back all those lovely memories of the 'Holy Spirits Choir' and the others who had such an impact in the late 80's, early 90's.
www.natari.com /southafrica.htm   (2544 words)

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