South Africa

Wikipedia: South Africa

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

General Information

• Cyndi's List South African Links

• Genealogical Society of South Africa - eGSSA Website

• South African Department of Home Affairs

• National Archives of South Africa (NARS)

• South African Genealogy

• The South African Genealogist

• South Africa Jewish Rootsbank

• British South African Police. Includes a Memorial Roll of Deaths 1980-1989

• Lehmkuhl Family Home Page

• Genealogy World

Emigration, Immigration, Shipping and Passenger Lists

• See Emigration/Immigration, Shipping and Passenger Lists

Military History

• The Anglo-Boer War Website

• Anglo-Boer War Centenary

• Anglo-Boer War Museum

• Concentration Camps during the Boer War 1899-1902

• South Africa Military History Journal

• The South African War. Original and Contemporary Sources

• The Siege at Elands River Post

• Index of Soldiers and Nurses of the Queen in the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

• South Africa War Graves Project

• Also see Military and Maritime History

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