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  An Energy Summary of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
South Africa's proved petroleum reserves, located along its western and southern coastline, are currently estimated (as of January 2005) at only about 16 million barrels, but this could increase by as much as an additional 40 million barrels once preliminary development of adjacent discoveries is completed.
South Africa has had a synthetic fuels industry since the 1950s, when Sasol was created by the South African government to reduce the country's dependence on imported oil by making liquid fuels from its plentiful coal reserves.
South Africa's proved natural gas reserves are currently estimated (as of January 2005) at about 350 billion cubic feet (bcf) but the gas fields off of South Africa's west coast and neighboring Namibia may contain as much as 20 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas.
www.cslforum.org /safrica.htm   (1103 words)

  
 South Africa and the affordable bomb | thebulletin.org
During this period, the United States supplied South Africa with the Safari-1 research reactor, which was commissioned in 1965 at the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center and subjected to IAEA safeguards.
South Africa's nuclear "strategy of uncertainty" was reaffirmed in the mid-1980s, and the government wanted to know how long it would take to conduct an underground test.
South African officials have consistently said that although they do not know if the flash was from a test or not, they know that South Africa had nothing to do with it.
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 South Africa: History
In 1910 the Union of South Africa, with dominion status, was established by the British; it included Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal as provinces.
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.
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 “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.
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 1993 Country Reports on Economic Practice and Trade Reports: SPAIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The instability in the international foreign exchange markets and South Africa's weak overall balance of payments caused the nominal effective exchange rate of the commercial rand to depreciate by 4.8 percent in the second quarter of 1993 and by a further 0.3 percent by the end of August 1993.
In April of 1993, the VAT rate increased to 14 percent in an attempt to cover the shortfall in current government revenues and to meet increasing demands for social spending.
South Africa's intellectual property laws and practices are generally in conformity with those of the industrialized nations, including the United States.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/economics/trade_reports/1993/SouthAfrica.html   (2600 words)

  
 Nuclear Weapons Program - South Africa
South Africa was isolated from interactions and activities with most of the developed countries for many years because of its nuclear weapons development program and the practice of apartheid.
South Africa was forced to cancel the tests in the face of diplomatic pressure from America, the Soviet Union, and France.
Nuclear verification in South Africa by Adolf von Baeckmann, Gary Dillon and Demetrius Perricos - IAEA Bulletin Volume 37, Number 1 1994 - Verifying South Africa's declared nuclear inventory, and the termination of its weapons programme, was a complex task.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/rsa/nuke/index.html   (1320 words)

  
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All South African officials agree that the shift in emphasis from peaceful nuclear explosives to strategic deterrence was in response to South Africa's deteriorating security situation.
President de Klerk said in his March 1993 announcement that the decision to develop a limited nuclear deterrent capability was taken as early as 1974, and de Villiers agrees.
South Africa’s renunciation of nuclear weapons is a major success for international efforts to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
www.isis-online.org /publications/southafrica/ir0594.html   (8103 words)

  
 1993 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1992 in South Africa, other events of 1993, 1993 in South African sport, 1994 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
South Africa signs the Convention on Biological Diversity
A South African diplomatic mission is opened in New Delhi, India
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 South Africa: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM); 1993 and 2000
The South African SAMs identify 39 activities and 39 commodities, which are further disaggregated across the nine provinces.
The South Africa SAMs are built on the framework originally presented in Thurlow and Seventer (2002) (PDF 363K).
Source: The South Africa 1993 and 2000 SAM was prepared by James Thurlow.
www.ifpri.org /data/southafrica03.asp   (255 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / South Africa
Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation.
South Africa at War: Military and Industrial Organisation and Operations in Connection with the Conduct of the War, 1939-1945.
Webb, H.S. The Causes of the Rebellion in South Africa, 1914.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/south_africa/za_bibl.html   (10072 words)

  
 South Africa in Australia, 1993-94
South Africa in Australia 1993/94 - South African Squad
South Africa in Australia 1993/94 - Test Averages
New South Wales Invitation XI v South Africans at Sydney, 18 Jan 1994
www.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1993-94/RSA_IN_AUS   (102 words)

  
 WorldViews: South Africa
Ahmed Kathrada, another member of the South African Parliament who visited Oakland, California, with Hogan in November 1996, knows better than most how sweet the 1994 victory was over apartheid, for he suffered 26 years as a political prisoner on South Africa's notorious Robben Island.
The revised edition of Professor Leonard Thompson's classic A History of South Africa (Thompson 1995) is a good place to begin for an overview of the sweep of South Africa's history from the fl settlements that pre-dated the arrival of the Europ eans to the elections and transition to multi-racial democracy in the 1990s.
From 1991 to 1995, Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)--in partnership with the African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and the South African National Civic Organisation-- conducted a series of missi ons in South Africa to assist the government and people of South Africa in their transition to democracy.
worldviews.igc.org /awpguide/southafr.html   (1436 words)

  
 1993 South Africa Special Weapons News
A curious conversion by David Albright Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - June 1993
South Africa comes clean by David Albright Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - May 1993
South Africa: The ANC and the Atom Bomb By David Albright and Mark Hibbs Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - April 1993
www.fas.org /news/safrica/index93.html   (51 words)

  
 1994 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1993 in South Africa, other events of 1994, 1994 in South African sport, 1995 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
South Africa establishes a Consulate-General in Mumbai, India
10 May Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first President of South Africa and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki become joint deputy presidents
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1994_in_South_Africa   (1348 words)

  
 South Africa - IFPRI Research by Country or Region
South Africa - IFPRI Research by Country or Region
South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS), 1993-1993
South Africa: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM); 1993, 1998, and 1999
www.ifpri.org /country/southafrica.asp   (100 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Missile Facilities
The rocket motor propellant casting pits at the Somchen production facility were destroyed in 1993 by cutting out steel components and sealing the pits with concrete.
Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations, "Space Industry in South Africa," 30 June 1993; "South Africa Abandons Independent Program," Reuters, 30 June 1993; "South Africa to abandon missile launching programme," Agence France Presse, 30 June 1993, ; Encyclopedia Astronautica, "Overberg,"
This material is produced independently for NTI by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Missile/1601_1659.html   (178 words)

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