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	World Almanac for Kids
		South Africa also includes a part of the Kalahari Desert in the NW and a section of the Namib Desert in the W. Rivers.
		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)

	South Africa - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The interior of South Africa is a giant, mountainous, and sparsly populated scrubland Karoo plateau.
		South Africa's most prevalent biome is grassland, which is particularly present on the Highveld, where the plant cover is dominated by different grasses, low shrubs, and acacia trees, mainly camel-thorn and whitethorn.
		South Africa is a middle-income, developed country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange, JSE Securities Exchange, that ranks among the 10 largest in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centres throughout the region.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /south_africa.htm (5283 words)

	President of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa's Constitution.
		The President is elected by members of the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, usually being the leader of the largest party, which has been the African National Congress since the first non-racial elections were held of April 27, 1994.
		Along with Mbeki, the last State President, F.W De Klerk also served as Deputy President, in his capacity as the leader of the National Party which was the second-largest party in the new Parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_South_Africa (273 words)

	Tony Leon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony James Leon (born 15 December 1956) is a South African politician and the leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party.
		Leon grew up in South Africa in a Jewish family during the apartheid era, when the African National Congress and other organisations representing the fl majority were illegal.
		From 1990 to 1994, he chaired the DP's Bill of Rights Commission, and as such was an advisor to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and a delegate to the multi-party negotiations that led to the end of apartheid and the establishment of a multi-party democracy in 1994.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Leon (481 words)

	Life Rulers And Opposition Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		South Africa's President Nelson Mandela is stepping down from the leadership of the ruling African National Congress at the end of the year.
		South Africa is Africa's most credible - and possibly favourite - candidate for winning a permanent seat on an expanded UN Security Council.
		It is instructive that in South Africa's campaign to host the next Olympics, which are being beamed to the world via CNN and other media, it is Vice President Mbeki, not Mandela, who makes the appeal.
	www.africanews.com /article106.html (852 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Zimbabwe's opposition leader criticized (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tsvangirai, the leader of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, has charged that the ruling party stole last week's parliamentary election and called on Zimbabweans to defend their vote.
		As leader of the opposition, Tsvangirai has been assaulted, harassed and forced to endure police searches of his home and offices.
		The opposition leader rose from humble beginnings as a textile factory worker and labor leader to pose the first credible political challenge to Mugabe and his party in 2000.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/04/04/zimbabwes_opposition_leader_criticized (546 words)

	Africa’s Economic Future: South Africa’s Role in Promoting Development - Council on Foreign Relations
		South African companies are also working hard to integrate themselves into local economies by training local employees and buying raw materials from local producers.[25] And the peacemaking efforts of the South African government have helped to restore goodwill towards the country in other parts of Africa.
		One is the South African government’s stubborn refusal to intervene in Zimbabwe.
		South Africa must also use its strong voice within the AU and Nepad to ensure that these institutions enforce a strong set of norms across the continent— norms that reflect the human rights and democratic values enshrined in South Africa’s own constitution.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7231 (5021 words)

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		South Africa - six years after freedom from minority rule - is a daily miracle of democratic practise and economic progress.
		South Africa was expelled from the UN in 1974 - President Mugabe likes to strut around the world stage today.
		It is worth recording that before peace and democracy came to South Africa those currently in government in South Africa were the most strident and insistent with their calls for intervention and international interaction in South Africa.
	www.zimbabwesituation.com /tony_leon.html (2003 words)

	Opposition rejects transition without Mugabe retirement - Top Commonwealth official banned
		Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said neighboring South Africa, backed by Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler, Britain, was trying to restart talks between the opposition and Mugabe's ruling party.
		Tsvangirai said a proposed summit to bring the sides together to discuss the formation of a national unity government to tackle the nation's collapsing economy was a ploy to legitimize Mugabe, whom the opposition blames for the country's economic and political meltdown.
		Tsvangirai said South Africa's role in pushing for dialogue was a feeble attempt to manage the Zimbabwe crisis on its northern border rather than resolve it.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/809761/posts (1061 words)

	Tough questions for SA govt on Zim: Leon
		CAPE TOWN - As South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) appeared "resolute only to be irresolute" on Zimbabwe, the opposition had some tough questions for South Africa's government, Leader of the Opposition, Tony Leon, said on Tuesday.
		Prime among them whether South Africa and its taxpayers were to continue "to prop up the Harare regime," he said in a statement following an SADC summit in Blantyre, Malawi, on Monday.
		South Africa should provide an economic lifeline -- but to the people of Zimbabwe, not their oppressors," Leon said.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/January/africa/0239A0DD1A.html (430 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Publications: Africa : South Africa
		South Africa is emerging as a leader in the field of mine detection and mine clearance equipment and technology.
		Unpunished attacks on foreigners in South Africa are disturbingly common; and foreigners are regularly victimized by the South African police,the army, and by guards at detention facilities.
		South African women’s organizations estimate that perhaps as many as one in every three women will be raped and that one in six women is in an abusive domestic relationship.South African women victims of violence continue to face a judicial and police system that routinely denies them redress.
	hrw.org /reports/world/southafrica-pubs.php (2393 words)

	IFP Speeches - April 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The leader of the opposition and I stand together on this podium today because we, today, stand together on the threshold of history.
		The leader of the opposition and I have worked together to ensure that there is a plan, which one day can fulfill the dream that no-one in this country will ever again go to sleep on an empty stomach, after a day of idleness, because of being unemployed.
		We shall build a new South Africa in which HIV/Aids, crime, unemployment, corruption and poverty will become as much bad memories of an idle and distant past, as oppression and apartheid are now bad memories of an equally ugly and distant past.
	www.ifp.org.za /Speeches/040404sp.htm (2561 words)

	South Africa: History
		Shortly after the establishment of the colony, slaves were imported from East Africa, Madagascar and the East Indies, their labor and skills facilitating the growth of the colony which, by the early 1700s was spreading into the hinterland.
		South Africa, now welcomed back into the international community, was divided into nine new provinces in place of the four provinces and 10 ‘homelands’ that existed previously.
		South Africa was launched into the post-Mandela era under the presidency of Thabo Mbeki.
	www.southafrica-newyork.net /consulate/history.htm (1656 words)

	South Africa history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the 1960s most leaders (including ANC leader Nelson Mandela) of the opposition to apartheid were either in jail or were living in exile, and the government proceeded with its plans to segregate fls on a more permanent basis.
		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.nicoza.com /southafrica/history.shtml (2605 words)

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		South Africa has three main geographic regions: a great interior plateau; an escarpment of mountain ranges that rims the plateau on the east, south, and west; and a marginal area lying between the escarpment and the sea.
		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.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/world/countries/southafrica.html?nav=el (4308 words)

	South Africa under fire for failure to act in Mugabe crisis \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		His criticism came as South Africa reluctantly agreed as president of the UN security council to allow a British request for a briefing on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe.
		South Africa's UN ambassador, Dumisani Kumalo, earlier said he would not permit the briefing on the grounds that the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe "is not a matter threatening international peace and security".
		South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has pursued what he describes as a policy of quiet diplomacy, arguing that open confrontation with Mr Mugabe by the British government and others has only strengthened the Zimbabwean leader's hand.
	www.guardian.co.uk /southafrica/story/0,,2038799,00.html (759 words)

	South Africa
		Although South Africa's economy is in many areas highly developed, the exclusionary nature of apartheid and distortions caused in part by the country's international isolation until the 1990s have left major weaknesses.
		South Africa has made great progress in dismantling its old economic system, which was based on import substitution, high tariffs and subsidies, anti-competitive behavior, and extensive government intervention in the economy.
		South Africa is a contracting party to the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
	clinton3.nara.gov /Africa/south.html (4056 words)

	South Africa
		South Africa, on the continent's southern tip, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and by the Indian Ocean on the south and east.
		South Africa declared itself a republic in 1961 and severed its ties with the Commonwealth, which strongly objected to the country's racist policies.
		South Africa, which has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world (nearly 5 million, about 12% of the population), has been hampered in fighting the epidemic by its president's highly controversial views.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107983.html (1500 words)

	Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung - www.fnst.org - South Africa's Opposition Leader speaks against Mugabe regime
		Tony Leon MP, Leader of the Official Opposition in South Africa’s parliament has spoken out sharply against the Mugabe regime in a speech at the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs and the damage done to Africa as a whole in an address entitled ‘The Prospects for South Africa and Zimbabwe’.
		South Africa is viewed as a symbol of our continent’s hopes and prospects at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
		And South Africa, which played the leading role in building Nepad and selling it to the G-8 nations, is failing to intervene, calling the viability of the whole project into question.
	www.fnst.org /webcom/show_article.php/_c-1011/_nr-120/printmode-true/i.html?PHPSESSID=674dd5ecc751556690d2b7ec2e141eb6 (4218 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Speech be Tony Leon MP, Leader of the Opposition, Parliament of South
		We urge Europe to support the people of southern Africa by maintaining their censure of Mugabe and affirming that the principles of democracy apply as much to Africa as they do to the rest of the world.Mugabe's regime is lawless, undemocratic, corrupt and immoral.
		South Africa is an immensely stronger country, with an entirely different history and with powerful institutions of democracy.
	www.dgap.org /print/1394.html (1985 words)

	South Africa's opposition leader to step down \| NEWS.com.au
		He said he had "accomplished his mission" to create a strong opposition after being elected to lead the DA in 1994 – the year in which the previously white-ruled South Africa held its first all-race and democratic elections.
		Even though the DA is the biggest opposition party, it garnered less than 12 per cent of the national vote in 2004, against the ruling African National Congress' (ANC) 70 per cent.
		The largely white-dominated DA is the official opposition nationally and in seven of the country's nine provinces, but has been unable to win support from the fl majority that makes up more than 75 per cent of the country's 45 million people.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,23599,20828413-38195,00.html (585 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		NLD leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient AUNG SAN SUU KYI, who was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 and 2000 to 2002, was imprisoned in May 2003 and is currently under house arrest.
		During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of other ethnic minorities within the republic, most notably the Sudeten Germans and the Ruthenians (Ukrainians).
		The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but are viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (16146 words)

	IDEX : Countries : South Africa
		South Africa is the largest, most industrialized country in Southern Africa with a population of 45.3 million people.
		South Africa has received much attention for its major efforts in righting past wrongs and undoing the damage caused by years of suffering and unequal distribution of resources.
		According to UNAIDS estimates, 5.5 million South Africans are HIV-positive; this represents over 18% of the population and gives South Africa the unfortunate distinction of the country with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world.
	www.idex.org /country.php?country_id=10 (662 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Former opposition leader Eglin to retire
		Former opposition leader and the longest serving Member of Parliament in South Africa, Colin Eglin, is to retire from active politics at the next national election, which is expected to be held early 2004.
		In the 1977 election he led the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) into becoming official opposition and became opposition leader only to be replaced by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert in 1979.
		DA candidates now have until the end of October to be nominated, which has opened the gates for those sitting in parliament to announce their retirement.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/276198.htm (434 words)

	afrol News - South African racist leader leaves prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mr Terre'Blanche became famous during South Africa's era of transition from a white minority to a fl majority rule in 1994.
		He established the AWB as a radical opposition to the handover of power to the ANC and President Nelson Mandela.
		Conservative whites find their leader in Tony Leon, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, a classical conservative party that includes all races but widely appeals to the white minority.
	www.afrol.com /articles/13343 (642 words)

	CNS STORY: Zimbabwe residents lack inspiring opposition leader, says archbishop
		CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Without a strong leader, residents of Zimbabwe will not risk taking to the streets to protest chronic food shortages and spiraling poverty, said Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo.
		Also, "their struggle in trying to work out ways of buying goods takes up all their time and physical strength," which means they have no energy for organizing or joining resistance movements, he said.
		Zimbabweans have "an acute sense of being alone in their struggle and of disappointment in South Africa" for its reluctance to put pressure on Mugabe to reform, he said.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0603368.htm (756 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Call for peace in South Africa
		Mr Holomisa, who was military leader of the Transkei "homeland" in the apartheid era, said Mr Nkabinde's death must become the catalyst for peace.
		Our South Africa Correspondent Jeremy Vine says hatred between the ANC and UDM still runs deep in the region, and the killings might not yet be over.
		The BBC South Africa Correspondent, Jeremy Vine, says that a week after the deaths, the police seem no closer to bringing the killers to justice.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/268180.stm (412 words)

	Zimbabwe opposition leader is acquitted \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted yesterday in Harare of conspiring to take power by assassinating President Robert Mugabe, a verdict praised by his party as "a victory for the people of Zimbabwe."
		Opposition supporters, who had been prepared for a conviction from the largely state-controlled judiciary, applauded the verdict.
		The government was expected to use bail conditions to restrict Tsvangirai's political activities ahead of parliamentary elections in March, political scientist John Makumbe said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041016/news_1n16zimbabwe.html (375 words)

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