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Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa, CFJ Muller, 3rd rev., Pretoria Academica, 1981 Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa 5th Edition ISBN 0-947008-17-9 , 1985 Who did what in South Africa, Mona De Beer, Craighall, South Africa, AD Donker, 1988
South Africa received more than 207,000 individual asylum applications in 2008 and a further 222,300 in 2009, representing nearly a four-fold rise in both years over the levels seen in 2007. These refugees and asylum seekers originated mainly from Zimbabwe , Burundi , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Rwanda , Eritrea , Ethiopia and Somalia .
Southern Africa was first reached by Homo sapiens before 130,000 years ago, possibly before 260,000 years ago. [1] The region remained in the Late Stone Age until the first traces of pastoralism were introduced about 2,000 years ago. The Bantu migration reached the area now South Africa around the first decade of the 3rd century, over 1800 ...
Years of the 18th century in South Africa (4 C, 1 P) Years of the 19th century in South Africa (79 C, 100 P) Years of the 20th century in South Africa (103 C, 100 P)
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the ...
Public demonstrations have become common in South Africa as communities protest against the ruling African National Congress JOHANNESBURG (AP) — […] The post South Africa will mark 30 years of ...
The Dutch ship Nieuwe Haerlem runs aground at the Cape of Good Hope. Under the leadership of Leendert Janszen, the stranded Dutch seamen stay at the Cape for a year. After their return to the Netherlands, Leendert Janszen and Matthijs Proot are commissioned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to write a report on their findings on the feasibility of the Cape as a refreshment station.