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  Transvaal - LoveToKnow 1911
TRANSVAAL, an inland province of the Union of South Africa between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers.
The population of the Transvaal, on the 17th of April 1904, when the first complete census of the country was taken, was 1,269,951 (including 8215 British soldiers in garrison),1 or 11.342 persons per sq.
The capital of the province, and of the Union is Pretoria, with a population (1904) of 36,83 9 (of whom 21,114 were whites).
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 Transvaal - MSN Encarta
Europeans named the region Transvaal, or “across the Vaal River,” because it was located north of the Vaal River.
The Transvaal and the Orange Free State became British crown colonies from 1902 until 1907, when both states were granted self-government.
In 1910 the Transvaal joined with the Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and Natal to form the Union of South Africa (since 1961, the Republic of South Africa).
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  Transvaal
The Transvaal was one of the provinces of South Africa from 1910 until 1994.
The Transvaal region is known to have been inhabited since the 8th century by Venda and Sotho peoples.
In 1961, the union ceased to be part of the British Commonwealth and became the Republic of South Africa.
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 Transvaal – FREE Transvaal Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
The Transvaal was bounded on the N and W by the Limpopo River, which forms the border with Zimbabwe and Botswana, on the E by Mozambique and Swaziland, and on the S by the Vaal River, the border with Orange Free State (now Free State).
The Transvaal, led by Jan Christiaan Smuts and Louis Botha, was granted self-government in 1907 and in 1910 became a founding province of the Union of South Africa.
In 1961, the Transvaal became a province of the Republic of South Africa.
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 Mpumalanga - MSN Encarta
Mpumalanga, formerly Eastern Transvaal, province in northeastern South Africa, bounded on the east by Mozambique and Swaziland, on the south by the province of KwaZulu-Natal, on the north by Limpopo Province, and on the west by Gauteng and Free State provinces.
The western part of the province is situated on the High Veld, a large plateau that covers much of central South Africa.
The province's capital at Nelspruit serves as an administrative and commercial hub.
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 Transvaal (South Africa)
The flag of the ZAR was incorporated into the new South African flag in 1928 while its arms were retained as the provincial arms of the Transvaal in 1951.
This flag was registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry as the flag of the South African Republic for the Office of the Prime Minister together with the flag of the Republic of Orange Free State on 30 April 1983 (application 08 January 1982, amendment 05 March 1982).
Transvaal flag (or Vierkleur) is used by the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Movement, AVF) as their Vryheidsflag (Freedom's flag), with an orange stripe replacing the red one.
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 Armoria academica - Transvaal University College
This type of wagon appeared in the seal of the Transvaal Colony and was taken up by the heralds of the College of Arms in 1910 for the Transvaal quarter of the Union arms.
Since the 1911 grants to the four provinces repeat the devices included in the four quarters, the wagon granted to the Transvaal is identical with that in the Union arms, and this wagon in turn follows that precedent.
On 7 April 1910 Smuts introduced three Bills at the final session of the Transvaal Parliament to establish: a university college in Pretoria, a school of mines in Johannesburg, and a national agricultural college.
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 Transvaal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The Transvaal was bounded on the N and W by the Limpopo River, which forms the border with Zimbabwe and Botswana, on the E by Mozambique and Swaziland, and on the S by the Vaal River, the border with Orange Free State (now Free State).
The Transvaal, led by Jan Christiaan Smuts and Louis Botha, was granted self-government in 1907 and in 1910 became a founding province of the Union of South Africa.
In 1961, the Transvaal became a province of the Republic of South Africa.
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 History Of Kruger Park: Transvaal Republic: South Africa...
The Transvaal was one of the provinces of South Africa from 1910 until 1994.
The Transvaal province lay between Vaal River in the south, and the Limpopo River in the north.
To its south it bordered the Orange Free State and Natal provinces, to its west were the Cape Province and the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana), to its north Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), and to its east Portuguese East Africa (later Mozambique), and Swaziland.
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 Transvaal (Province of South Africa)
When a province of South Africa between 1910 and 1994, Transvaal had no official provincial flag but the flag of the former Boer republic, of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (on which the boundaries of the province were based) was often used unofficially.
The former Arms of the ZAR, incorporating the vierkleur flag of the former republic, became the provincial Arms of the Transvaal.
The wagon in the fourth quarter of the Arms of the Union (later Republic) of South Africa represented the Transvaal.
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 Blue Crane - Wikipedia
In the last two decades, the Blue Crane has largely disappeared from the Transkei, Lesotho, and Swaziland.
The population in eastern Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal and northern Orange Free State has declined by up to 90%.
The majority of the remaining population is in eastern and southern South Africa, with a small and separate population in the Etosha Pan of northern Namibia.
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 Armoria patriæ - Transvaal Province
The Province of Transvaal initially had no armorial symbol, the arms of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek having fallen into abeyance upon the state’s annexation by Britain as the Transvaal Colony, which lacked a coat of arms, but had other symbols which were to influence later usage.
Arms were granted to the province by the College of Arms on 4 May 1911, in the form of the Transvaal quarter of the Union arms, but the arms so granted were not even communicated to the province (see Union of South Africa).
The fourth province, North West, was created out of the south-western parts of the Transvaal, almost the entire Bophuthatswana and the Cape district of Vryburg (briefly the Republiek Stellaland).
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 Transvaal – FREE Transvaal Information | Encyclopedia.com: Find Transvaal Research
By the Treaty of Vereeniging (1902), the Transvaal became a British Crown Colony.
In 1907, the region was again allowed self-government, and in 1910 it became a founding province in the Union of South Africa.
In 1995, Transvaal ceased to exist as a political entity and was split into four of South Africa's nine new provinces.
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 Limpopo Province, South Africa
Northern Province is the northern most province of South Africa, reorganized from northern Transvaal.
There is currently a debate in this country as to whether the provinces should have their own flags or not with the ANC holding the view that the provinces should not have individual flags.
The name "Northern Province" was unfortunate, because the rugby-team of Northern Cape province was and is playing as the Northern Province team.
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 History Of Kruger Park: Transvaal Republic: South Africa...
The Transvaal was one of the provinces of South Africa from 1910 until 1994.
The Transvaal province lay between Vaal River in the south, and the Limpopo River in the north.
To its south it bordered the Orange Free State and Natal provinces, to its west were the Cape Province and the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana), to its north Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), and to its east Portuguese East Africa (later Mozambique), and Swaziland.
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 Accommodation Polokwane Pietersburg Accommodation, Hotels / South Africa Travel Online Bookings/ Polokwane Info ...
The province was formed from the northern region of the Transvaal province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal.
Limpopo Province shares international borders with districts and provinces of three countries: Botswana's Central and Kgatleng districts to the west and north-west respectively, Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South and Masvingo provinces to the north and northeast respectively, and Mozambique's Gaza Province to the east.
The port of Durban, Africa’s busiest, is served directly by the province, as are the ports of Richards Bay and Maputo.
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 Transvaal - Research the news about Transvaal - from HighBeam Research
The Transvaal was bounded on the N and W by the Limpopo...
At a small country voting station in the Western Transvaal, a solitary elderly white woman is led in to vote by her fl companion.
Magnum Photos; Jan 1, 1994; Ian Berry; 277 Words...country voting station in the Western Transvaal, a solitary elderly white woman is led...geographical guateng africa south africa transvaal continent south african geographical...country voting station in the western transvaal, a solitary elderly white woman is led...
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 Orange Free State, South Africa  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Orange Free State, former province in east central South Africa, and Afrikaner republic in the 19th century.
At the time of South Africa's first free elections in April 1994, the province of Orange Free State became the province of Free State, one of nine provinces created from the former four provinces.
The small bantustan of Qwaqwa and one section of the bantustan of Bophuthatswana were established within the province of Orange Free State.
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 South Africa - Provincial and Local Government
Until 1994 South Africa was divided administratively into four provinces, the Cape Province, Natal Province, the Transvaal, and the Orange Free State; six "self-governing" homelands, Gazankulu, KaNgwane, KwaNdebele, KwaZulu, Lebowa, and QwaQwa; and four "independent" homelands or "sovereign independent states," Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei (see fig.
After receiving 304 written reports and hearing eighty oral witnesses, the commission recommended the formation of nine provinces, with a few disputed borders to be reconsidered at a later date.
The capitals of the new provinces are Cape Town (Western Cape), Kimberley (Northern Cape), Bisho (Eastern Cape), Bloemfontein (Free State), Nelspruit (Mpumalanga), Pietersburg (Northern Province), Johannesburg (Gauteng), and Mmabatho (North-West Province).
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 St George's Park - The History of the SA & Rhodesian Women's Cricket Association
Western Province was the first province to play cricket and on turning back their record books, one finds that a few enterprising women played the game as early as the beginning of the 20th century.
Northern Rhodesia was the youngest Province, and although they were far away from everybody else, and didn't get much opposition during the season, that were not deterred.
Western Province, winners of the Challenge Cup for the second year in succession, once again proved their superiority by winning not only the tournament but the final match against The Rest on the concluding day.
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 Culture - North West
Closer to the present, it was in the North West Province, in 1838, where General Potgieter settled after he defeated the armies of Mzilikazi at Kapain and Mosega.
The white settlement of the interior was aided by a process called the Difaqane, meaning "human scattering" and amounted to the almost frenzied movement of large communities away from the impi's (armies) of Mzilikazi, with the result that the Boers found the interior largely unpopulated.
The country was finally reincorporated into the North West Province under the new dispensation of the new Republic of South Africa in 1994.
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 GEOLOGY
To the north of the Transvaal province, and separated from it by the younger Limpopo belt, is the Rhodesian province.
The Limpopo belt runs E-NE separating the Rhodesian and Transvaal massifs, and is a belt of high-grade metamorphic rocks involved in a long cycle of metamorphism and deformation that ended 2,000 million years ago, after the stabilisation of the adjacent massifs.
This province consists of a group of sediments and volcanics, the Birrimian group, which has been folded, metamorphosed, and intruded by a large suite of granites, the Eburian granites (1,900-2,200 million years old).
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 MSN Encarta - Literature Guide - Cry, the Beloved Country
Born on January 11, 1903, in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, Alan Paton was a committed humanitarian and an eloquent spokesman against apartheid.
In 1935, after completing a series of courses at the University of Natal and teaching in the country school of Ixopo, Paton was appointed principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory school in the Transvaal Province, near the city of Johannesburg.
Paton's original approach (involving freedom of movement, reward, and punishment) proved so successful in the rehabilitation of fl juvenile offenders that in his 12 years as head, the Diepkloof Reformatory was transformed into a model school and Paton became known as an expert on rehabilitation techniques.
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 q online - TRAVEL: Gauteng Province, South Africa - Home
auteng Province is the former Transvaal Province and has been reduced in size to consists of the megalopolis of Johannesburg (central), Pretoria (north), Vereeniging (south), Benoni (east) and Krugersdorp (west) and their surrounding areas and is located between the Vaal River to the south and the Magaliesberg Mountain range to the north.
The Province is situated high on the central highveld plateau of South Africa at an average altitude of 1 500 metres above sea level.
The province is characterised by rolling hills, fold mountains and flat, savannahs with sporadic scrub brush.
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 St George's Park - 100 Seasons Ago
Mr Midgley, on behalf of the Western Province Union, then moved that Llewellyn be debarred from playing and explained at length the views of his delegates.
Mr Mitchell, on behalf of Transvaal, explained that Llewellyn was not a professional cricketer in South Africa, and had not taken a penny for his cricket in this country.
The collapse of the Kimberley team against the Transvaal was not anticipated, because the Kimberley team was reported to be a nice, compact all-round team.
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