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| + | ==Military History== | ||
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| + | *[http://www.angloboerwar.com/ The Anglo-Boer War website] | ||
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| + | *[http://www.icon.co.za/~dup42/war.htm Anglo-Boer War Centenary] | ||
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| + | *[http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/ Anglo-Boer War Museum] | ||
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| + | *[http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/boers.html#liberal Concentration Camps during the South African/Boer War, | ||
| + | 1899-1902] | ||
| − | + | *[http://rapidttp.co.za/milhist/journal.html South Africa Military History Journal] | |
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| + | *[http://www.pinetreeweb.com/perspectives.htm The South African War. Original and Contemporary Sources] | ||
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| + | *[http://www.lighthorse.org.au/histbatt/elands.htm The Siege at Elands River Post] | ||
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| + | *[http://www.southafricawargraves.org/index.htm South Africa War Graves Project] | ||
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| + | ==Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists== | ||
*[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Emigration_and_Immigration See Separate Page] | *[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Emigration_and_Immigration See Separate Page] | ||
Revision as of 11:57, 4 November 2009
Contents
Capital Pretoria (name may change to Tshwane.)
Cape Town is legislative capital.
Languages 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu.
Currency Rand
South Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa, is the world's largest producer of platinum, gold and chromium as well as a major cultivator of marijuana.
At the Western Cape is Robben Island a former prison (now a national monument) which was home to many of South Africa’s freedom fighters including Nelson Mandela.
Register Office
The Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Department of Home Affairs
Private Bag X114
Pretoria 0001,RSA
Tel: 00027 123148 911/109
Fax: 0027 123148416
Links
Military History
- [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/boers.html#liberal Concentration Camps during the South African/Boer War,
1899-1902]
Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists
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