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  Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
{{liberal party}} The Democratic Alliance (DA) is a liberal party South African political party, and the official opposition to the ruling African National Congress.
The PFP drew support mainly from liberal English-speaking white South Africans, as owing to South Africa's apartheid laws, its membership was limited to the country's whites.
The PFP was ousted as the official opposition by the far-right Conservative Party in the whites-only parliamentary elections held on May 6 1987.
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 Reference Encyclopedia - History of South Africa
South Africa's ports and harbors, such as at Cape Town, Durban, and Simon's Town, were also important rest-stops, refueling-stations, and served as strategic assets to the British Royal Navy during the war, helping to keep the vital sea lanes to the British Raj open.
South Africa's contribution consisted mainly of supplying troops, men and material for the North African campaign (the Desert War) and the Italian Campaign as well as to Allied ships that docked at its crucial ports adjoining the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean that converge at the tip of Southern Africa.
There have been three referendums in South Africa: 1960 referendum on becoming a republic; 1983 referendum on implementing the tricameral parliament; and 1992 referendum on becoming a multiracial democracy all of which were held during the era of Nationalist Party control.
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 ipedia.com: Liberal Democrats (UK) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an alliance for some years).
The SDP and the Liberals soon realised that their was no place for two centrist political parties, and entered into an alliance so that they would not stand against each other in elections.
The Liberal Democrats are a member party of the Liberal International and their 11 MEPs form part of the ELDR group in the European Parliament.
www.ipedia.com /liberal_democrats__uk_.html   (2437 words)

  
  History of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Africa's ports and harbors, such as at Cape Town, Durban, and Simon's Town, were also important rest-stops, refueling-stations, and served as strategic assets to the British Royal Navy during the war, helping to keep the vital sea lanes to the British Raj open.
South Africa's contribution consisted mainly of supplying troops, men and material for the North African campaign (the Desert War) and the Italian Campaign as well as to Allied ships that docked at its crucial ports adjoining the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean that converge at the tip of Southern Africa.
There have been three referendums in South Africa: 1960 referendum on becoming a republic; 1983 referendum on implementing the tricameral parliament; and 1992 referendum on becoming a multiracial democracy all of which were held during the era of Nationalist Party control.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_South_Africa   (8790 words)

  
 CNN - Voting period ends in South Africa's 2nd all-race election - June 2, 1999
With opinion polls showing the ANC far ahead, two questions remained to be resolved by the election: whether or not the ruling party would pull two-thirds of the vote, giving it the power to amend South Africa's constitution, and which of 15 other parties would take second place and become the ANC's official opposition.
The former apartheid National Party, renamed the The New National Party, and the liberal Democratic Party, which between them can claim the support of most whites, were vying for second place with polls giving each around 8 percent.
The party was forged from a union between ANC renegade Bantu Holomisa, former military ruler of the apartheid-era fl Transkei homeland, and former National Party strategist Roelf Meyer.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9906/02/south.africa.vote.02/index.html   (651 words)

  
 American Hegemony - A Timeline
The USG, with Japanese and South Korean collaborators (under Syngman Rhee - a Korean-American chosen by Chiang Kai Shek to preside over South Korea - curtesy Washington DC), slaughtered one third of the population of Cheju Island in anti-communist purges during the occupation of South Korea from 1945 to 1949.
Similar actions were taken against anti-nazi resistance groups in other liberated territories, for example in Germany, where an average of $6 million was spent supporting the Nazi intelligence network of General Reinhard Gehlen until he was replaced by the CIA in 1954.
South Africa was never named a "state sponsor of terrorism", even after Renamo was charged with genocide by Reagan's state department, after the destabalization campaign had helped bring about a shift in Mozambique's political alliances towards the West.
www.flagrancy.net /timeline.html   (12731 words)

  
 Gateway: For Want of a Nail Timeline
A new anti-slavery party, the Southern Union, is formed and conflict between abolitionist and pro-slavery views soon dominates SC political life.
All of South America is soon dependant on Mexico in one way or another, and within a year a revolution is fomented in Hawaii which is added to the USM.
Germany is expanding into British spheres of influence around Asia and Africa, and with new oil concessions from the Ottoman Empire is threatening the CNA policy to avoid having to depend on Mexico for oil.
www.alternatehistory.com /gateway/analyses/FWOAN-timeline.html   (10811 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   (4306 words)

  
 Mozambique History Timeline - historic overview of Mocambique, Africa
Both the Portuguese colonies and apartheid South Africa are considered to be "friends of the West" during the cold war.
The South African resistance movement, the African National Congress (ANC), is permitted to work in the southern Mozambique bordering S.A. To the west, Frelimo permits the Rhodesian resistance organisation ZANU to operate from bases within Mozambique.
For the South African apartheid government, this is a chance to destabilise the feared "fl communists" in the neighbouring countries.
crawfurd.dk /africa/mozambique_timeline.htm   (4218 words)

  
 Timeline South Africa
In 1996 South African former police officer Eugene de Kock said that Craig Williamson, a South African spy, was involved in the murder.
In South Africa police chief Johan van der Merwe was instructed to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, called Khotso House, for harboring anti-apartheid groups.
His ANC party earmarked $4 billion to be spent over ten years to help correct the land imbalance largely due to the forced abandonment by fls between 1950-80 when about 3.5 million fls were forcibly trucked off to ethnic territories, often abandoning land, houses and cattle.
timelines.ws /countries/SOUTHAFRICA.HTML   (14895 words)

  
 CNN - South Africa prepares to vote - June 1, 1999
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Exhausted from weeks on the campaign trail, politicians complied with a 24-hour ban on campaigning Tuesday, the day before South Africa's second national election since the end of apartheid.
Nelson Mandela, who is retiring from political life and the post he won in South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994.
Fifteen other parties -- none of which expected to pull more than 10 percent of Wednesday's vote -- were vying for seats in the Assembly and the position of the ANC's official opposition.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9906/01/s.africa.elex.01/index.html   (417 words)

  
 South Africa: History — Infoplease.com
, an ardent advocate of federation in S Africa, became prime minister of Cape Colony, and by 1894 he was encouraging the non-Afrikaner whites (known as the Uitlanders) in the Transvaal to overthrow Kruger.
South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth in 1994 and also relinquished its last hold in Namibia, ceding the exclave of
The politics of identity: South Africa, story-telling, and literary history.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861191.html   (2992 words)

  
 LiberalOasis: Archives for the Week of July 6, 2003
Not so coincidentally, "senior administration officals" -- at least one who is "familiar with the intelligence program" -- told the W. Post that the CIA was telling the Brits to drop the Africa charge way back in September.
On top of that, "intelligence officials" told Newsday that "[t]he CIA 'from day one' was highly skeptical of reports that Iraq had been shopping for uranium ore in Africa...".
Communications Director Dan Bartlett's job was to satisfy the media desire to know how the Africa line got into the State of the Union, by giving a vague description of the process to the W.
www.liberaloasis.com /archives/070603.htm   (2523 words)

  
 Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
Africa occupies just over 20 percent of the earth's land surface and has roughly 20 percent of the world's population, but European slave traders in the 17th century and the next will decimate the continent by exporting human chattels and introducing new diseases.
Moreover, influences from Africa remained a strong force in the struggle against slavery well after the 1790s, especially in Brazil and Cuba, where there was a continuous infusion of new slaves from Africa, often from places where slaves had been coming for some time.
It is estimated that some five percent died in Africa on the way to the coast, another thirteen percent in transit to the West Indies, and still another thirty percent during the three-month seasoning period in the West Indies.
www.innercity.org /holt/slavechron.html   (17488 words)

  
 Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i )))
The context is that during the last few terms the party-in-power (Hungarian Socialist Party) was forging reports on the economic status of the country in hopes of being re-elected.
Observers noted that all parties were caught in a "torrent of lies", where every side tried to promise a better and even better world to their voters.
Also, there was not much choice for the people: since 1989 they have tried every single possible party to be government party, and banished all the parties after a single term because they did not live up to their expectations.
www.indymedia.org /en/index.shtml   (2173 words)

  
 Angola on the Internet
Approximately 100 international participants convened to examine the relationship between Portugal and Africa, the global effects of this encounter, and the current state of Lusophone African studies.
Party history, press communiques, issues of their bulletin, statements by President Roberto.
Party opposing the Angolan government, led by President Jonas Savimbi (killed by the Angolan army February 2002).
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/angola.html   (5326 words)

  
 Think Progress » FACT: Members of Both Parties Believe Bush Broke the Law
The Republicans are the party of “You are now one of us, so you MUST do what we tell you to do!” If you have any independent thought, it’s obviously not acceptable to the Republicans.
The Republicans are the party of inclusion, the Democrats are the party of exclusion.
This is sheer opportunism and a grab for power by a party historically known for such power-lust, sprinkled with salt for the wounds of Liberals by that beacon of integrity, Karl Rove.
thinkprogress.org /2006/01/23/both-parties   (7758 words)

  
 African Women on the Internet
Stories of everyday life in Africa, by Stephen Buckley, for the Washington Post newspaper.Topics include urban young people in Kenya, an Ethiopian midwife, wife inheritance and AIDS in Kenya, urban family obligations in Cote d'Ivoire, child brides in Cote d'Ivoire, effects of civil war on the Dinka in the Sudan, funeral practices in Ghana.
The North South Centre seeks to to strengthen Co-operation and contacts between NGOs from the North and the South.
The South African NGO Secretariat for Beijing site has the South African Government's 1994 Country Report on the Status of South African Women.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/women.html   (9435 words)

  
 Optical Munitions Exhibition - Australian History Timeline
Australian defence forces were engaged in action around the Mediterranean (primarily in North Africa, Greece, Syria and Crete).
Japanese prisoners-of-war escaped from their internee camp at Cowra, New South Wales: 234 prisoners and 4 guards were killed.
The Liberal Party was formed by Robert Gordon Menzies out of the remnants of the former United Australia Party.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/exhib/omp/bgrnd/timeline.htm   (685 words)

  
 US History Timeline: 1900 - 2000
- Communist Parties gain control of rest of Soviet occupied Europe
Congress resolves that President Johnson given authority to use all power to repel attacks on U.S. forces… this resolution formed basis for massive escalation of U.S. military action in Vietnam without declaration of war.
Massive escalation of U.S. military effort, combined with nightly TV coverage of war and opposition of liberal news media.
faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/a_us_history/1900_2000_timeline.htm   (746 words)

  
 Drinking Liberally Oakland - Strategy Archives
Whether or not there is tangential evidence of such, or the results of a given operation or policy exhibit themselves as imcompetent, the "root cause" is the same.
Republican Party, the 'Party of Pederasts', Catches the Foley Anvil....
You are invited to the Republican SOTU Party!
drinkingliberally.org /blogs/oakland/archives/strategy   (8936 words)

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