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	Governor-General of the Union of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Governor General of the Union of South Africa was the representative of the British Crown in South Africa between May 31, 1910 and May 31, 1961.
		Under the National Party, the office of Governor-General was held by retired government ministers, who pointedly did not wear the traditional 'colonial' Windsor uniform composed of a blue military jacket and plumed hat.
		Charles Robberts Swart, the last Governor-General, became Officer Administering the Government in April 1961 under a transitional arrangement, before he was sworn in as the first State President of the Republic of South Africa on May 31 of that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Governor-General_of_the_Union_of_South_Africa (377 words)

	Governor-General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In South Africa, the Governors-General of the Union nominated by the AfrikanerNationalist government chose not to wear the uniform.
		Governor-General (or Governor General) is a term used both historically and currently to designate the appointed representative of a head of state or their government for a particular territory, historically in a colonial context, but no longer necessarily in that form.
		The Governor General became the direct representative of the country's Sovereign only, and relations with the United Kingdom were placed in the hands of a British high commissioner in each country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Governor-General (1289 words)

	Union of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the 1960 South Africa referendum, in which whites voted in favour of a republic, the Union became the Republic of South Africa on 31 May 1961 and left the Commonwealth in the face of condemnation of its apartheid policies.
		The Union of South Africa came into being on 31 May 1910, comprising four states representing the British and Boer populations of South Africa following the end of the Boer War in 1902.
		Louis Botha, formerly a Boer general, was appointed first Prime Minister of the Union, heading a coalition representing the white Afrikaner and English-speaking communities.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Union_of_South_Africa (360 words)

	Governor General of South Africa
		General Hertzog, the South African Prime Minister, was prepared to accede to the King's wishes on this point, but it was felt that there were bound to be protests from some members of the Assembly if the South African Union Flag was not flown with the Union Jack on Government House.
		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.
		When the Union of South Africa came into being on 31 May 1910, it was as a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire.
	www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/za_gg.html (1082 words)

	Empangeni, South Africa - History, Facts and Tourism
		The mill and the village that developed around it were probably named for Viscount Herbert (nicknamed Felix) Gladstone, the first governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1910).
		Heatonville, about 20 km to the northwest of Empangeni, was named for Natal politician George Heaton Nicholls, who served as member of parliament for Zululand, administrator of Natal and South African high commissioner in London.
		Empangeni, 30 km northeast of Mtunzini, is the commercial, industrial and communications centre of an area that produces large quantities of sugarcane and, especially, timber in the valley of the Mhlatuze River.
	about-south-africa.com /html/empangeni.html (495 words)

	Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton was the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1914 to 1920.
		He was created Viscount Buxton, of Newtimber in the County of Sussex, in 1914, and advanced as Earl Buxton in 1920.
		This biography of a British peer or noble is a stub.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidney_Buxton (107 words)

	Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast by the Governor-General of Canada, Rideau Hall, Ottawa: 3 November 2003.
		H.E. the Governor General would also see some of the land she would not have seen when she passed by 60 years ago or when she came to South Africa as a journalist.
		Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast by the Governor-General of Canada, Rideau Hall, Ottawa: 3 November 2003.
		Both South Africa and the new Eldorado, Canada, have been blessed with riches buried deep in the bowels of the earth.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/speeches/2003/mbek1103.htm (1122 words)

	Armoria - Union/Republic of South Africa
		The Governor-General’s flag was a Union Jack with the Union of South Africa’s coat of arms wreathed in flowering mimosa branches on a white roundel at the centre.
		In the early years of Union the Union Buildings were erected on Meintjes Kop, Pretoria, to serve as the administrative “palace”, and a large courthouse was erected in Bloemfontein as the seat of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
		Significant for the Union was its provision of seats in the South African Parliament for members elected from South West Africa: six in the House of Assembly and four Senators.
	www.geocities.com /landswapen/1910-94E.html (4995 words)

	Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1923, Alexander was appointed governor general of the Union of South Africa, in succession to his cousin, HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught.
		Alexander also served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 21 January 1924 to 21 December 1930 and then as Governor General of Canada from 21 June 1940 to 12 April 1946.
		There had been calls from government and the media for a Canadian Governor General, but Prime Minister Mackenzie King did not feel the time was right for this while Canada was still at war with Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Cambridge,_1st_Earl_of_Athlone (1092 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp
		He was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1913, of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Chemical Institute in 1922-3, and of the chemistry section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science at the meeting held in Wellington in 1923.
		At the general election held in 1856 he was elected a member of the legislative assembly for Geelong and advocated a public bank of issue and the encouragement of immigration.
		Governor Brisbane opposed his suggestion that "government reserves" should be considered church and school lands, and with regard to land generally, comparatively little of it had even been surveyed.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html (21523 words)

	High Commissioner for South Africa
		One would suppose that this flag went out of use in 1931, at the same time that the Union Jack of the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was replaced by the royal crest and scrolls on a blue flag.
		During and after the South African War, the High Commissionership was separated from the Governorship of the Cape when High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner resigned as Cape Governor in 1901 while retaining the Governorship of the Orange River and Transvaal Colonies.
		The High Commissioner was usually Governor of the Cape, but during the South African War Lord Milner resigned as Governor in Cape Town and was instead Governor of the Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony, while still retaining the office of High Commissioner.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/za-hcomm.html (1442 words)

	No. 74/1930: COPYRIGHT (UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA) ORDER, 1930.
		AND WHEREAS with a view to the performance in relation to the Union of South Africa of the obligations imposed on Saorstát Eireann by the Berne Convention and the said amending Conventions it is expedient that Part VI.
		AND WHEREAS the Berne Convention and the said amending Conventions are binding on the Union of South Africa:
		AND WHEREAS it is provided by section 3 of the said Act that in that Act the expression " British dominion" includes the Union of South Africa:
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI74Y1930.html (597 words)

	Category:Governors-General of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See related article Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Governors-General_of_South_Africa (55 words)

	South Africa in 1914
		After the Boer War the colonies were united to form the Union of South Africa (1910).
		A British governor general was nominal head of state but power rested with an Executive Committee headed by General Luis Botha.
		In South Africa native peoples and women were barred from public office.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWinAfrica.htm (209 words)

	Olwh
		Completed in 1941, this mansion located on Grant’s Hill served as residence for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa from 1942.
		After the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, Oliewenhuis became the official residence for the State Presidents of South Africa.
		The commission was a nation-wide project aimed at integrating European as well as African concepts of mythology reflecting the diversity of cultures coexisting in South Africa.
	www.nasmus.co.za /OLIEWENH/OLWH.HTM (1772 words)

	Drug History
		South American Indians, especially those in the Peruvian Andes mountains, made several early discoveries of drug-bearing plants.
		The surgeon general's warning label on tobacco packaging gradually made people aware of the addictive nature of nicotine.
		1894 Norman Kerr, and English physician and president of the British Society for the study of Inebriety, declares: "Drunkenness has generally been regarded as.
	www.drug-rehabs.org /drughistory.php (7605 words)

	Greytown Places of Interest
		Later in 1910 he became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa and in 1919 he attended the peace Conference in Versailles.
		Constructed of stone from the original old Greytown Court House and was paid for by Sir George Leuchars, Minister of Agriculture under the Prime Minister Louis Botha during the first Union of South Africa parliament in 1910.
		The sculpture behind the altar was executed by the famous South African Sculptor Mary Stainbank.
	www.greytown.co.za /interest.htm (1973 words)

	An Appeal to the Members of the Imperial Parliament and Public of Great Britain
		The signatories of this Appeal have been sent to this country by The South African Native National Congress, an organization for focussing native opinion, and consisting of paramount chiefs, headmen, councillors, educated native leaders, and representatives of the various native tribes and races within the Union of South Africa.
		The natives of South Africa are loyal subjects of His Majesty the King, but they have no voice in the Legislative Councils of the country in which they live (except to a limited degree in the Cape Province), and their appeal was first made through us to His Majesty's Representatives in South Africa.
		Among the natives of South Africa His Majesty is looked upon as their natural protector, and it is their faith in His Majesty's sense of justice that has impelled them to send us here.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/early/petition140000.html (1455 words)

	Gideon Brand van Zyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gideon Brand van Zyl (December 31, 1873 - September 20, 1956), was the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1946-1950.
		Prior to this, he served as Deputy-Speaker of Parliament.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_Brand_van_Zyl (74 words)

	Delv.co.uk: union of south africa websites in the UK
		Multinational asset-management company gives an overview of its financial investment capabilities in Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
		Results: 1 - 10 - UK Search for: union of south africa
		Find union of south africa and more at Lycos Search.
	www.outdoor-play-equipment.co.uk /play/union_of_south_africa.html (345 words)

	PSSAcirc1
		Located on Grant's Hill, the mansion served as residence for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa from 1942.
		After the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, Oliewenhuis became the official residence for the State Presidents of South Africa.
		The Conference venue is Oliewenhuis Art Museum, the only museum of its kind in the Free State Province and one of the youngest art museums in South Africa.
	www.nasmus.co.za /FLORIS/PSSAcirc1.html (281 words)

	Privatisation of the media and national survival in Lesotho / 2001/2 / Archive / Media Development / Publications / Home - WACC site
		Among other peculiarities, the proclamation authorises the postmaster general of the Union of South Africa to issue broadcasting licences in the territory of Basutoland, thus, subjugating the political existence of Lesotho to that of the Union.
		In the days of white domination in Southern Africa, it was not uncommon to hear statements by white politicians to the effect that black communities were politically unstable.
		But what ‘the new leaders,’ who view the economic problems of the rest of Africa as a problem of immaturity ‘out there’ and ‘not here,’ fail to realise is the fact that the seeming wealth is a result of historic conditions and not of their genius.
	www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/layout/set/print/content/view/full/1150 (3305 words)

	Council for Geoscience, South Africa: NORTH-WEST UNIT
		One was at the request of members of the North West EcoForum and the Provincial Branch of SAHRA (South African Heritage Resources Authority) who wished to look at the activity of the diamond diggers and miners in the Bakerville area of the Lichtenburg Diamond Fields.
		These sediments were deposited during a general wet cycle although a dry period probably interveened before the end of Eden times.
		It is bound on the west by the southwestwards flowing Molopo River which also forms the common boundary between South Africa and Botswana.
	www.geoscience.org.za /northwest/statutory.htm (2321 words)

	1946_in_South_Africa
		Gideon Brand van Zyl is appointed the 8th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
		See also: 1945 in South Africa, other events of 1946, 1947 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
		12 March - The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) delegation is received by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, in Delhi, India, submitting a petition drafted in consultation with Mohandas Gandhi.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=1946_in_South_Africa (142 words)

	University of the Witwatersrand - Central Records Office-University Archives-General Information
		Prince Arthur of Connaught, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, became the University's first Chancellor, and Professor Jan H Hofmeyr its first Principal.
		The origins of Wits lie in the South African School of Mines, which was established in Kimberley in 1896 and transferred to Johannesburg as the Transvaal Technical Institute in 1904, becoming the Transvaal University College in 1906 and renamed the South African School of Mines and Technology four years later.
		Wits was the first South African university to have a nuclear accelerator, to have a computer, to study building materials and early Afrikaans, to produce a systematic climatological atlas of Southern Africa and to achieve a successful graft of plastic cornea.
	www.wits.ac.za /cro/history.htm (1274 words)

	THE GENERAL STRIKE OF 1922
		Generally the workers kept the peace although, at the Village Deep mine, there was a scuffle which led to shooting and a bayonet charge: three Africans were killed, and forty-seven injured, twelve of them whites.
		The General strike of 1922 was one of the most traumatic events in the struggle of the mainly white working class against their employers and the South African state.
		Smuts assumed the premiership of South Africa after the death of General Botha at the end of August 1919, and stamped his authority on the political, economic and social development of the country.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /supplem/Hirson/1922.html (14294 words)

	Petition to King George V
		Again we are encouraged to mention the appreciation expressed in the Parliament of the Union of South Africa on the occasion of the Mendi disaster when the Right Honourable General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of the Union said:-
		Having regard to the prevailing desire for independence amongst white races in South Africa under the form of Republicanism, it is recorded that we shall never consent or tolerate such independence without the consent of the Native inhabitants who are quite content to remain under British Rule.
		The Bantu people of South Africa have ever been impressed with the high ideals permeating the British Constitution, and in this connection have always held the memory of the late Queen Victoria, The Good, with reverence and devotion.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/early/petition181216.html (1947 words)

	Parcel Post Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Union of South Africa [1911] ATS 7
		The postage on parcels posted in the Union of South Africa and addressed to the Commonwealth of Australia and on parcels posted in the Commonwealth of Australia and addressed to the Union of South Africa shall be at such rates as may be agreed upon from time to time by the contracting Administrations.
		There shall be a regular exchange of uninsured postal parcels between the Union of South Africa and the Commonwealth of Australia effected by means of the ordinary postal service between those countries.
		Parcels from the Union of South Africa to the Commonwealth of Australia, State of.........................
	www.austlii.org /au/other/dfat/treaties/1911/7.html (2018 words)

	Union of South Africa
		South African War: The War's Aftermath - The War's Aftermath The Boers accepted British sovereignty in exchange for a promise of responsible...
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		Boer- Boer [Du.,=farmer], inhabitant of South Africa of Dutch or French Huguenot descent.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0919915 (124 words)

	Hout Bay Holidays / Info & Tours / History of Hout Bay
		On the 6th May 1922 the Governor General of the Union of South Africa officially opened Chapman's Peak Scenic Drive.
		Cape Town's South Peninsula Municipality immediately took steps to remove loose rocks by "rock barring" but shortly after in January 2000, the worst veld fires ever experienced in living memory, damaged the mountain further rendering the scenic drive completely unsafe and led to its inevitable closure.
		Though trees now cover large areas of the mountain slopes once again, they are mostly of exotic species.
	www.houtbayholiday.co.za /houtbay_info.asp (1518 words)

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