Internationally acclaimed as well, Bishop Blake is known for his aggressive initiative, " Save Africa's Children " which supports hundreds of African children who have been affected by HIV / AIDS in orphanages in several countries in Africa.

Ten bantustans were established in South Africa, and ten in neighbouring South-West Africa ( then under South African administration ), for the purpose of concentrating the members of designated ethnic groups, thus making each of those territories ethnically homogeneous as the basis for creating " autonomous " nation states for South Africa's different black ethnic groups.

Although the original author of the song is unknown, Shosholoza is a traditional miner's song, originally sung by groups of men from the Ndebele ethnic group that travelled by steam train from their homes in Zimbabwe to work in South Africa's diamond and gold mines.

It is often argued that the policy of Bantu ( African ) education was aimed to direct black or non-white youth to the unskilled labour market, although Hendrik Verwoed, at the time Minister of Native Affairs, claimed that the aim was to solve South Africa's " ethnic problems " by creating complementary economic and political units for different ethnic groups.

During South Africa's transition to democracy, she adopted a far less conciliatory and compromising attitude than her husband toward the dominant white community. This made her unpopular with the white apartheid interest groups, not surprisingly.

The widest interstate war in modern African history, it directly involved nine African nations, as well as about twenty armed groups, and earned the epithet of " Africa's World War " and the " Great War of Africa.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa's new government has been cold towards Israel and critical of Israel's policies towards Palestinians, but ignored calls from pro-Palestinian civil South African groups to sever relations between the two countries.

States were also established by other population groups, most notably the Griqua, a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people.

In turn, by tacitly collaborating with the Black guerrilla groups and isolating Rhodesia and other white minority-ruled nations in Africa, Western corporations would retain access to Africa's strategic minerals.

In the final draw, on 4 December 2009, Portugal was drawn in one of the toughest groups, the so called Group of Death where the Selecção das Quinas faced 5-time champions Brazil, Africa's top contenders Côte d ' Ivoire and 1966 opponents North Korea.

However, when taking current South African policy and concerns into account, it appears the attentions of the SASS are currently focused on two main areas: The activities of Al-Qaeda and similar groups abroad in relation to South Africa's security, and the activities of illegal South African mercenaries, most especially in parts of Africa and Iraq.

The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited is one of South Africa's largest financial services groups.

As could be expected from South Africa's recent history, its magazine market is ( still ) characterised by definite differences in the readership of magazines amongst the country's different race groups.

Two areas differ from South Africa's apartheid system: Firstly, under a system called xia fang, or " sending down ", individuals or groups of urban workers were sometimes re-classified as rural workers and banished to the countryside ( at lower wages and benefits ), often as a sentence for " bourgeois imperialist crimes " during the Cultural Revolution ; by contrast, white workers in South Africa were never sent to work in Bantustans.

In attendance at this historical inauguration of South Africa's green movement were various members of related environmental organisations and ecology groups including:

To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.

Africa's poverty, however, is expected to rise, and most of the 36 countries where 90 % of the world's undernourished children live are in Africa.

* 2007: The Congo River and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the scenario for the 2007 book Blood River by journalist Tim Butcher, based on his intrepid travels up and down Africa's second longest river.

There are several rapids as the river falls off Southern Africa's inland escarpment.

However, due to the fact that Mandela was only the Inkosi's child by a wife of the Ixhiba lineage, a so-called " Left-Hand House ", the descendants of his cadet branch of the Thembu royal family remain ineligible to succeed to the Thembu throne, which is itself one of the several traditional seats that are still officially recognized by South Africa's government.

Wild boar are native across much of Northern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean Region ( including North Africa's Atlas Mountains ) and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia.

The effects of West Africa's civil strife on the pygmy hippopotamus are unknown, but unlikely to be positive.

The Sudd and the Okavango Delta are Africa's best known marshland areas.

For example MTN South Africa's old IMSIs that are still being used in the market are shown as 14 digits.

The Kruger Park and Table Mountain National Park are two of South Africa's most visited tourist attractions.

South Africa's s ( approximately long ) are the biggest jet-propelled vessels so far.

Physically the Khoisan, with their short frames ( 149 – 163 cm / 4 ' 9-5 ' 4 ;), copper brown skin, tightly coiled " peppercorn " hair, high cheekbones, and epicanthic eye folds are quite distinct from the darker-skinned peoples who constitute the majority of Sub-Saharan Africa's population, though both population are usually dolichocephalic ( Huxley, 1870 ).

The Cape floristic region, at Africa's southern tip, is a Mediterranean climate region that is home to a significant number of endemic taxa, as well as to plant families like the proteas ( Proteaceae ) that are also found in the Australasia ecozone.

It is estimated that " more than a thousand million tonnes of southern Africa's soil are eroded every year.

Mallards are also causing severe " genetic pollution " of South Africa's biodiversity by breeding with endemic ducks, although the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies to the Mallard.

On the other hand, South Africa's national anthem is unique in that five of the country's eleven official languages are used in the same anthem ( the first stanza is divided between two languages, with each of the remaining three stanzas in a different language ).

Thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make it a formidable task.

They are the Old Mutual Buffalo 42, 2 km marathon, which is held February / March each year, and South Africa's oldest 160 km extreme ultra marathon, the Washie, over a picturesque and undulating coastal route from Port Alfred to the city.

Scholar Isidore Diala states that J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and André Brink are " three of South Africa's most distinguished white writers, all with definite anti-apartheid commitment ".

The Northern Cape is South Africa's largest province, and distances between towns are enormous due to its sparse population.

The three colours are representative of African peoples ( black ), Africa's sunshine ( yellow ), and African brotherhood ( red being the colour of blood, through which all Africans are connected ).

In 1959, the university was subsumed by the apartheid system, but it is now part of South Africa's post-apartheid public higher education system.

National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.

Most of the country lies within the wide band of desert that stretches eastwards from Africa's Atlantic Coast across the continent and into southwest Asia.

De Klerk is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supporting the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights.

In August 2006, an inquest into the plane crash was opened by South Africa's High Court.

The First and Second Liberian Civil War, which was one of Africa's bloodiest, claimed the lives of more than 200, 000 Liberians and further displaced a million others into refugee camps in neighboring countries.

By the mid-16th century, the Portuguese settlers had turned the islands into Africa's foremost exporter of sugar.

This trade led the Khasso into increasing contact with the European settlements of Africa's west coast, particularly the French.

On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, also known as Bantustans, were reintegrated and the four existing provinces were divided into nine.

In 1993, leading into South Africa's first elections of universal suffrage and the end of Apartheid, the Natal and Cape regions called for their secession from South Africa.

Kimberly-Clark Sub-Saharan Africa's vision is ambitious – nothing less than turning the $ 250 million business into a $ 1 billion business by 2015.

His operations carried him from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, and into the Pacific to the East Indies.

The Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research was placed under the Union of South Africa's defence ministry, and was involved in important research into the use of radar.

In this context transformation can be defined as " a complete alternation of the appearance or character of South African rugby ", and one aim is to transform the Springboks into a team more representative of South Africa's race and class.

* Likewise, " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika " (" The Voice of South Africa ") became South Africa's only national anthem and was also translated into English to appease the relevant population.

He became the most successful of all Africa's Francophone leaders, comfortably extending his political dominance into a fifth decade ".

Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and even South America, and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean.

Malan's party opposed South Africa's entry into the war on the side of the British ; some of its members wanted to support Nazi Germany.

De Lille led the call for an investigation into alleged corruption in South Africa's purchase of weapons costing £ 4bn from British and other European manufacturers ( that cost has soared on the basis of foreign currency collapses to more than its original cost although the Rand £ and Rand $ exchange rates have now reduced the costs to almost the same level as the original cost .).

As the number of overs was reduced in between South Africa's innings, this method takes into account what South Africa would have scored before the first interruption.

He assisted the South African delegation to the United Nations from 1946 to 1949, and was a legal adviser in the 1950 International Court of Justice hearing into South Africa's refusal to give up South West Africa.

He was a founding member of South Africa's gay and lesbian sports movement in the early 1980s and was on the organising team that guided the country into the Gay Games for the first time in 1994.

Bush has also initiated programs that have put more than 29 million of Africa's poorest children into schools.