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  NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Nuclear Chronology
South Africa is also ready to resume discussions with the IAEA on safeguarding the Valindaba semi-commercial enrichment plant, but not the Y-plant, saying that its new enrichment technology may be "compromised" if the Y-plant were open to international inspection.
South African negotiations with the IAEA stall, as South Africa demands the right to withdraw safeguarded enriched uranium produced in Valindaba for nuclear submarine propulsion systems, and the right to abrogate the safeguards agreement should its rights and privileges as a member of the IAEA be curtailed.
South Africa agrees to sell 2,000 tons of yellowcake to Romania, but then cancels the deal because Romania is not forthcoming with information about safeguard measures to be applied on the material.
nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Nuclear/2149_3276.html   (4142 words)

  
 The Vela Incident
South Africa was known to be pursuing a weapons program, but the status of their effort was unknown to the outside world, although the US had detected preparations for a nuclear test site in the Kalahari desert in 1977, [Burrows and Windrem, 1994]).
South Africa has not only revealed its formerly secret nuclear arsenal and weapons program, but has dismantled both, and the apartheid regime that built them is no more.
In particular, the information provided to the IAEA that South Africa did not construct its first nuclear explosive device until November 1979, two months after the mysterious flash, and that the first batch of highly enriched uranium was kept in an experimental device until 1989.
nuclearweaponarchive.org /Safrica/Vela.html   (4627 words)

  
 From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa (1987 - 2000) - Jackie Dugard
The background research for this report is based on a doctoral thesis, 'Taxi wars in South Africa's transition: The informalisation of violence and the economy', examined in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, England.
In South Africa the criminal justice system, which under apartheid was designed not to administer justice but to defend the apartheid system, has in recent years battled to contain the rising levels of criminality and violence.
As with broader criminality and violence in South Africa, it is difficult to ascertain the degree of official corruption and complicity.
www.csvr.org.za /papers/papvtp4.htm   (17086 words)

  
 Israel and South Africa
The South Africans began teaching the lessons of Israel's 1967 war at their maneuver school, and Israeli advisers began teaching the Boers the arts of suppressing a captive population and keeping hostile neighbors off balance...
The South Africans noted that their May, 1983 aerial attack (dubbed Operation Shrapnel) on Mozambique's capital, Maputo, was analogous to Israel's attack on Beirut the previous summer.
The victims of South Africa's angst are not blind to the similarity of attacks-or motives.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Global_Secrets_Lies/Israel_SAfrica.html   (1307 words)

  
 South Africa - Bibliography
The OAU on Southern Africa: Resolutions and Declarations of the Organization of African Unity on Southern Africa.
Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation.
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump.
countrystudies.us /south-africa/87.htm   (1237 words)

  
 1987 Crash of Taiwan to South Africa 747 Flight Reported to Have Carried Nuclear Bomb [Free Republic]
PRETORIA: South Africa's transport ministry has asked experts to investigate the authenticity of a purported cockpit conversation suggesting a South African airliner that crashed in 1987 was carrying a nuclear bomb.
South Africa's Transport Ministry, reacting to speculation that a bomb may have gone off aboard the plane, said on Wednesday there was no solid evidence to indicate the cause of the disaster.
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission had recommended that the government open an inquiry into the causes of the disaster after it questioned around 15 witnesses in closed door hearings two years ago.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3933811612ca.htm   (1566 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)

  
 Sports stadiums in South Africa - SouthAfrica.info
South Africa is the home of world-class sporting facilities capable of accommodating tens of thousands of spectators in comfort, such as the picturesque Newlands grounds, nestled at the foot of Cape Town’s mountains, and the energy-charged Wanderers Cricket Grounds in Johannesburg.
It was at the FNB that South Africa defeated Congo 1-0 in front of a delirious capacity crowd to qualify for the World Cup finals for the first time.
South Africa trailed 23-5 with 12 minutes remaining, but they lifted themselves and an ecstatic crowd as they crossed New Zealand’s try line three times to claim a famous victory.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/stadiums.htm   (4151 words)

  
 Kitco - Paul Van Eeden Weekly Column
South African mine production currently accounts for about fourteen percent of global gold mine output, with Harmony producing roughly one quarter of all the gold in South Africa.
Labor contracts for the gold mining industry in South Africa are negotiated primarily between the mines and the labor unions, of which the NUM is the largest.
I'm not convinced that the strength in the South African rand is behind us, and the combination of currency risk with the social and political risk in South Africa makes South African gold mining stocks unattractive in my opinion.
www.kitco.com /weekly/paulvaneeden/printerfriendly/apr012005p.html   (1100 words)

  
 CNS - South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program: An Annotated Chronology, 1969-1994
South Africa emerges "as the prime suspect," but the South African government denies that it has conducted a nuclear test.
South Africa's strategy was that "if the situation in southern Africa were to deteriorate seriously," the government would confidentially indicate its deterrent capability to one or more of the major powers – such as the United States – in order to persuade them to intervene.
South Africa is the first and to date only country to build nuclear weapons and then entirely dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
cns.miis.edu /research/safrica/chron.htm   (3468 words)

  
 [9 Graphs] How Nelson Mandela brought Crime & Murder to South Africa
Crime in South Africa is on everyone's lips these days and it is even the talk of the world.
South Africa was firmly under White Apartheid rule in the 1970's.
In 1987, this country was regarded as falling apart at the seams because of the violence, yet...
www.africancrisis.org /ZZZ/ZZZ_News_011191.asp   (3024 words)

  
 South Africa’s Health Care Plans and National Health System Development - Kaiser Family Foundation
An award, named for Nelson Mandela in honor of his universal standing as a symbol of the struggle for equity and democracy in South Africa, given annually to a South African and an American in recognition of extraordinary dedication and achievement in improving the health of the disadvantaged populations of both countries.
But the main goal of our South Africa program has remained the same which is to develop the people, plans and programs to help establish a more equitable national health system and a successful democracy.
According to the 2002 South African Health Review report, published by the Health Systems Trust, issues such as the impact of the AIDS epidemic, lack of adequate support systems and resources, dwindling public sector funding, and an exodus of health workers from the public sector continue to overwhelm the system.
www.kff.org /southafrica/index.cfm   (1321 words)

  
 Match Schedule for South Africa, South Africa Match Schedule, Match Schedule for South Africa Cricket Team
South Africa played its first world cup match in the ICC Cricket World Cup 1992, and reached up to semi-finals.
South Africa is placed in Group A of the ICC World Cup 2007 groupings, along with Australia, Scotland and the Netherlands.
South Africa will play its first warm-up match against Canada on March 05, 2007 at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad, and will start its world cup campaign against the Netherlands on March 16 at Warner Park Stadium in St.
www.travour.com /icc-cricket-world-cup-2007-west-indies/cricket-world-cup-2007-match-schedule/south-africa-cricket-team.html   (328 words)

  
 NPR : A Black Ambassador to Apartheid South Africa
U.S. Ambassador Edward Perkins (left) and South African President P.W. Botha in an official photograph recording the presentation of Perkins' credentials upon his arrival in South Africa in 1987.
South Africa was in turmoil during the 1980s.
A large crowd of fl South Africans came to watch in disbelief as a fl arrived at the president's office to present his American diplomatic credentials.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6369450   (2990 words)

  
 The Use of Computers to Support Oppression
South Africa continued to import a large number of computers despite an attempt by the government to promote domestic production.
IBM continually asserted that the applications of their computers were not used to abridge human rights, despite acknowledgment that the uses to which their computers were put could not be known in all cases.
Although IBM officially divested from South Africa in 1987, their products continued to be distributed by Information Services Group.
www-cs-students.stanford.edu /~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html   (1732 words)

  
 Case Studies in Sanctions and Terrorism: South Africa
South Africa's tools for countering sanctions include import substitution (partly through technology licensing); "sanctions busting" (transshipment, false labeling); adjustments in macroeconomic policies (exchange controls, dual exchange rate system).
South Africa's problems will be solved by South Africans and not by foreigners.
Anticipating possible freeze of bank accounts in US, most South Africans move their deposits offshore, primarily to Switzerland, which already "handles most of South Africa's gold transactions" according to spokesman for major US bank.
www.iie.com /research/topics/sanctions/southafrica2.cfm   (2086 words)

  
 AEGiS: South Africa
South Africa extends nearly 2000 km from the Limpopo River in the north to Cape Agulhas in the south and nearly 1500 km form Port Nolloth in the west to the eastern port city of Durban.
The AIDS Committee was set up in 1987 "to assist the actuarial profession (and later the wider public) in estimating the impact of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa".
The Sunday Times is South Africa's largest circulation weekly newspaper, with a readership of more than 2.2 million and a circulation of 459 551 (Audit Bureau of Circulation, July-December 1997).
www.aegis.com /countries/safrica.html   (1923 words)

  
 South Africa
The political significance of the anthems and the combination of the anthems to create the national anthem of post-apartheid South Africa is discussed by various persons including descendants of the original composers.
Positive political changes in South Africa hold no promise of a better life for the men of neighboring Lesotho, who are the main labor source for South African gold mines.
Description: Interviews with five women living under apartheid in various locations throughout South Africa: in an "ethnic reserve" in the barren interior; in a women’s barrack in Alexandra; in a fl ghetto in Soweto; in a domestic position for a white family in Johannesburg and in the Crossroads shanty-town near Capetown.
intl-programs.uiowa.edu /academic/asp/SouthAfrica.htm   (3338 words)

  
 Amazon.com: South Africa's Road to Change, 1987-1990: A Select and Annotated Bibliography (African Special ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
South Africa's search for a way through repression, violence, and the various attempts at reform to a nonracial democracy has been a frustrating one for participants and observers alike.
By focusing on the period from 1987 to August 1990, Kalley brings forward her well-received South Africa Under Apartheid.
At the same time she provides an opportunity for researchers outside South Africa to gauge viewpoints from the widest spectrum of political persuasions.
www.amazon.com /South-Africas-Road-Change-1987-1990/dp/0313281173   (899 words)

  
 South African Police - Crime
The Centre was established in 1987 in the Law Faculty at the University of Natal, Durban.
South Africa in Transition - UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism
Eight students at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism reported from South Africa March 1999 on AIDS, water shortages and supply, Pieter-Dirk Uys' voter education tour, car jacking, domestic abuse against women, crime, hairstyles, gay and lesbian society.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsapolice.html   (715 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Cry Freedom (xhtml)
The problem with this movie is similar to the dilemma in South Africa: Whites occupy the foreground and establish the terms of the discussion, while the 80 percent nonwhite majority remains a shadowy, half-seen presence in the background.
We see the manicured lawns of the whites, who seem to live in country club suburbs, and the jerry-built "townships" of the fls, and we sense the institutional racism of a system where fl maids call their employers "master" and even white liberals accept that without a blink.
The film begins with the stories of Donald Woods, editor of the East London (South Africa) Daily Dispatch, and Steve Biko, a young fl leader who has founded a school and a clinic for his people and continues to hold out hope that fls and whites can work together to change South Africa.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19871106/REVIEWS/711060301/1023   (829 words)

  
 South Africa - Related Items - MSN Encarta
South Africa - Related Items - MSN Encarta
Nelson Mandela, first fl president of South Africa
Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha, who after taking office in September 1978 had warned white South Africans that they would have to either 'adapt or die' in response to the calls for change in South Africa's racially segregated political system, spelled out in 1982 the precise adaptation envisioned...
encarta.msn.com /related_761557321_19.12.4/1982_South_Africa.html   (89 words)

  
 MBEAW: South Africa: Apartheid Regime
A Verdict in South Africa, William Finnegan, New Yorker (4/22/02).
South Africa: A New US Policy for the 1990s (San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1988).
The Legacy of the Past in the New South Africa (Bellville: Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa, 1994).
www.mbeaw.org /resources/countries/southafricaapartheid.html   (2078 words)

  
 Mphahlele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of fl South Africa's voices of conscience during Apartheid was born and raised in the slums of Pretoria in 1919.
He returned to South Africa in 1977, but the government withdrew the University appointment that he had been offered.
Johannesburg, South Africa: Witwatersrand University Press for the Institute for the Study of Man in Africa.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/mphahlel.htm   (194 words)

  
 South Africa Travel Guide and Bicycle Touring Guide
Historically southern Africa was inhabited by a non-caucasiod, non-negroid people generally called the Khosian.
Many of the governance issues between the fls and whites were resolved with the universal suffrage elections of 1994, but there is a lot of politics to go.
As South Africa moves into a more equalitarian era, generally cycling opportunities are improving.
www.ibike.org /africaguide/south.htm   (518 words)

  
 Welcome to Community Bible Church of Vallejo CA - South Africa
Mark first became interested in South Africa when he met a young South African lassie, who worked in the library of the Bible College he attended.
They were married in her home church in Newcastle, South Africa in 1987.
Presently these students include white South Africans and Cape Coloreds, who are a mixed race, and make up 8% of the country's total population.
www.cbcvallejo.org /cbc-south-africa   (411 words)

  
 South African theatre - SouthAfrica.info
The theatre scene is buzzing in South Africa, with more than 100 active spaces all over the country offering everything from indigenous drama, music, dance, cabaret and satire to West End and Broadway hits, classical opera, and ballet.
Add to that a multitude of festivals of various degrees of gravitas and any time of the year in South Africa offers an almost unlimited range of theatrical experiences.
In the absence of work and influences from abroad, South African theatre makers were forced to draw on their own resources, and they did so with huge creativity and singular success.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/culture/drama.htm   (288 words)

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