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 United Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smuts and the United Party lost the 1948 election to the National Party.
Attrition characterized his leadership years, as the party slowly declined because of electoral gerrymandering, changes to South Africa's voting laws, including the removal of the 'Coloureds' - South Africans of mixed ancestry, who had been staunch United Party supporters - from the electoral rolls, and defections to other parties.
In 1977, the United Party was renamed the New Republic Party, but a significant number of its parliamentarians refused to remain with the renamed party; some joined the anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party and others eventually joined the ruling National Party.
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 South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Africa is often referred to as The Rainbow Nation - a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later elaborated upon by then-President Nelson Mandela as a metaphor to describe the country's newly-developing multicultural diversity in the wake of segregationist apartheid ideology.
South Africa's most prevalent biome is grassland, particularly on the Highveld, where the plant cover is dominated by different grasses, low shrubs, and acacia trees, mainly camel-thorn and whitethorn.
South Africa undertook a nuclear weapons program in the 70s, allegedly with the assistance of Israel, and may have conducted a nuclear test over the Atlantic in 1979, but has since renounced its nuclear program and signed the treaty in 1991 after destroying its small nuclear arsenal.
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 South Africa - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
South Africa also has one possession, the small sub-antarctic archipelago of the Prince Edward Islands, consisting of Marion Island (290 km²) and Prince Edward Island (45 km²; not to be confused with the Canadian province of the same name).
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 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.
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 National Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The National Party (sometimes called the Nationalists or Nats) was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
The National Party was founded by Afrikaner nationalists soon after the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
Another goal was achieved in 1960, when the white population voted to sever South Africa's ties with the British Monarchy and establish a republic, which led to South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth.
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 South Africa - MSN Encarta
With the South Africa Act of 1910 the British parliament established the dominion of the Union of South Africa with the four colonies as its provinces.
Official politics in South Africa from the 1920s continued to be dominated by the conflicting positions of the two white groups.
His party therefore demanded that the Afrikaans language be given equal status with English, that the country have a separate flag, not the British Union Jack, and that South Africa have the right to secede from the British Empire.
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 South Africa, Apartheid and Terror excerpted from the book State Terrorism and the United States From Counterinsurgency ...
The South African military began to play an increasing role in domestic security, and the military way of destroying the enemy was transferred from the external to the internal and became more and more common practice within the country.
South African Destabilization, a report initiated by a task force appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, provides an estimate of the total economic and demographic cost to the victims in neighboring countries of the implementation of South Africa's total strategy.
Western collaboration with South Africa continued, and "it paid off." In August 1988 Foreign Minister PK Botha announced that South Africa had a nuclear capability, and in March 1993 President de Klerk acknowledged that the apartheid state had produced six nuclear bombs in 1989.
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 List of political parties in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Africa is a democratic but one party dominant state with the African National Congress in power.
Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
United South African Party (aka the Unionist Party)
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 AllRefer.com - South Africa - South African Communist Party | South African Information Resource
In South Africa, white workers generally felt they had little in common with their fl counterparts and feared that any improvements for fl workers would reduce their own status and income.
Party members campaigned against military recruitment of fls (and Indi ans) in South Africa, arguing that the "natives" should not be sacrificed to perpetuate their own exploitation.
Party members reportedly persuaded the ANC to abandon African nationalism in favor of nonracialism, however, although the SACP, unlike the ANC, viewed the primary objective of the revo lution as the creation of a socialist state.
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 SOUTH AFRICA — The 51st State: Proposal from a South African magazine
At present, South Africa accounts for one-third of the GNP of the entire continent, and is obviously in a position to initiate an economic surge throughout the continent.
South Africa is not merely one more square on the chessboard: it is one of the most important of all.
South Africa would not be coming to Washington as a beggar, hat in hand.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/South Africa
South Africa has experienced a significantly different evolution from other nations in Africa arising primarily from two facts; immigration from Europe reached levels not experienced in other African communities and a level of mineralogical wealth that made the country extremely important to Western interests, particularly during the Cold War.
The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed or abolished by the National Party in 1990 after a long and sometimes violent struggle (including economic sanctions from the international community) by the Black majority as well as some White, Coloured, and Indian South Africans.
South Africa is a nation of over 46 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and beliefs.
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 SOUTH AFRICA
Henning was the Director of the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville from 1979 to 1995.
Included are files on the 1948 electoral victory of the Afrikaaner National Party, the establishment of the official policy of apartheid, and internal and foreign opposition to South Africa's racial policies.
South African Trials; Court Records of Various Appeal and Criminal Cases, Mostly on Charges of Sabotage or Political Offenses, Heard in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Appellate Division) and other Courts.
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 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, the country with the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world (6.5 million in 2005), has been hampered in fighting the epidemic by its president's highly controversial views.
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Mbeki fired his deputy after Zuma's former financial advisor, Schabir Shaik, was found guilty of fraud and corruption related to South Africa's controversial arms procurement programme, and sentenced to an effective 15 year jail term in June this year.
The onus for resolving the political crisis was placed squarely on Mbeki's and Zuma's shoulders by the NEC, which mandated the two leaders to come up with proposals to be discussed at a specially convened NEC meeting, "which will be held as soon as possible".
Dr Sehlare Makgetlaneng, head of the Southern Africa desk at the Africa Institute, a local think-tank, told IRIN that explanations were needed as ANC members and alliance partners had demonstrated a lack of understanding of the separation between state and party, and the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary.
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The ANC national executive committee (NEC) meeting was called to heal a rift between President Thabo Mbeki and the party's deputy president, Jacob Zuma, which has degenerated into the worst crisis the ANC has faced since being elected to power in 1994.
ANC insiders and analysts said pressure on Zuma to resign as the party's deputy president was likely to build after the rape claim.
The party realised it had to "show leadership, as it was silence on their part after the Zuma [fraud] probe became public which the former deputy president used to his advantage to drum up support for himself," said a senior ANC member.
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 South Africa Political Parties on the Internet
The NA is committed to freedom of religion." The party derives from a split from the Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging.
See also parties registered for the 1999 election ("This is the list of all parties registered in South Africa as at 08 January 1999.
Aims to be "...the leading party in uniting all South Africans, Christians and non-Christians alike, in a truly democratic, non-racial and non-sexist partnership...." Party manifesto, constitution of the UCDP, of the UCDP Women's League, and of the UCDP Youth League.
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 AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: South Africa: Political Parties Material
Administrative/Biographical history: As the Union of South Africa (1910-1961) and subsequently as a republic the country's history between independence from British rule and the 1994 elections has been dominated by the issue of relations between its different racial groups.
Following the ascension to power of the Boer-dominated National Party in 1948 racial discrimination became increasingly entrenched in law as part of the 'apartheid' policy.
Resistance and repression increased together, with groups representing the demands of the non-white population (notably the PAC and the ANC) being banned and subsequently conducting an armed struggle from various bases in sympathetic neighbouring countries.
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 Statement by Sharad Pawar at the General Debate of First Committee, UNGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The non-discriminatory international Conventions prohibiting chemical and biological weapons respectively were based on a devaluation of the military utility of these weapons and on the belief that rather than partial and discriminatory arms control, the interests of international security are better served with their complete prohibition and elimination.
We, however, respect the sovereign choice exercised by non-nuclear weapon states in establishing nuclear weapon free zones on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the Region concerned.
At the fifth session of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Manila, India stated that it fully respects the statute of the nuclear weapon free zone in South East Asia and is ready to convert this commitment into a legal obligation.
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 South Africa
united as a dominion (Union of South Africa).
17 Dec 1856 Republic of Lijdenburg in South Africa established.
Territorial Disputes: South Africa has placed military along the border to stem the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution; managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the boundary in the Orange River.
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 Political Resources on the Net - South Africa I
Political Resources on the Net - South Africa I
General Elections in the Republic of South Africa
Democratic Party of South Africa University of Pretoria
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