We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to fly to collect his honor.

Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

* Austin Stevens ( born 1950 ), South African photographer

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops.

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

* Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a South African military aircraft manufacturer, formerly known as Atlas Aviation

** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force

** Atlas Carver, a South African military jet development project that was cancelled in the 1990s

* 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Togo, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Angola, Comoros, Mauritius, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

The success of the ensemble was emulated by other regional conductors, and a rich tradition of a cappella choral music was born in the region at colleges like Concordia College ( Moorhead, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois ), Wartburg College ( Waverly, Iowa ), Luther College ( Decorah, Iowa ), Gustavus Adolphus College ( St. Peter, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota ), and Augsburg College ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ).

A cappella is gaining popularity among South Asians with the emergence of primarily Hindi-English College groups.

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Co-ed South Asian a cappella groups are also gaining in popularity.

Maize Mirchi, the co-ed a cappella group from the University of Michigan hosts " Sa Re Ga Ma Pella ", an annual South Asian a cappella invitational with various groups from the Midwest.

* In an episode of the animated TV series South Park, Eric Cartman and the United States Congress sing " Heat of the Moment " a cappella.

Falsetto is also common in African folk music, especially the South African style called Mbube, traditionally performed by an all-male a cappella chorus.

The 1930s also saw the spread of Zulu a cappella singing from the Natal area to much of South Africa.

By 1948 the song had sold about 100, 000 copies in Africa and among black South African immigrants in Great Britain and had lent its name to a style of African a cappella music that evolved into isicathamiya ( also called mbube ), popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

For instance, in the Highlands, the valiha and more subdued vocal styles are emblematic of the Merina, the predominantly Austronesian ethnic group that has inhabited the area since at least the 15th century, whereas among the southern Bara people, who trace their ancestry back to the African mainland, their a cappella vocal traditions bear close resemblance to the polyharmonic singing style common to South Africa.

* Songs from North and South for children's chorus a cappella ( 1993-2008 )

" Mambazo " is the primary a cappella group from South Africa to garner worldwide attention ; all other widely-known South African musicians use some form of instrumental backing, though some groups such as the Mahotella Queens, who sing against an electric guitar " Mbaqanga " melody, occasionally sing without instrumental backing.

Collegiate a cappella spans multiple genres and styles: alternative and hard rock ; comedy ; Jewish, including mostly Yiddish or Hebrew songs ; Christian, including Christian pop and rearranged hymns ; South Asian fusion ( mainly composed of youth of South Asian origin or heritage ); jazz-influenced pop ; fusion groups ; barbershop ; Rhythm & Blues ; madrigals ; and jazz.

South Korean boy group U-KISS did an a cappella version of the hit song.

* Comedy performance by Bob Hope, Ben Blue and Patricia Wilder ; “ Way Down South in Dixie ,” sung a cappella by Patricia Wilder.

She discovered Overtone, a South African a cappella band, during the filming of Clint's film Invictus.

* " Brown Sugar " ( a cappella ), a South Asian a cappella group at Northwestern University

Dartmouth Taal is Dartmouth's only South Asian Fusion a cappella group.

`` The established pattern of relative calm in the field of race relations has continued in all areas '', reported this group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South Floridians, William D. Singer and John B. Turner of Miami.

Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.

Buaford Robinson, 23, of 7026 Stewart Av., a CTA bus driver, was slugged and robbed last night by a group of youths at 51st Street and South Park Way.

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

* Any member of the genus Eunectes, a group of large, aquatic snakes found in South America

Surveys of the SW Indian Ocean have shown phytoplankton group variation based on their location relative to the Polar Front, with diatoms dominating South of the front, and dinoflagellates and flagellates in higher populations North of the front < sup >.</ sup >

The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group ( called the " Tswana " in South Africa ).

The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

The Taíno and Ciboney were part of a cultural group commonly called the Arawak, which extended far into South America.

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

The Cook Islands contain 15 islands in the group spread over a vast area in the South Pacific.

Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

This group sees mainland China as being similar to Franco's Spain in the 1960s, and South Korea during the 1970s when South Korea was run by corrupt, authoritarian regimes.

With the return of South Africa in 1992 after the ending of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon