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

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

That same year Disraeli's financial activities brought him into contact with the publisher John Murray who was also involved in the South American mines.

focused largely on bonds and financial institutions directly involved with the South African regime.

The financial rand system was instituted on 1 September 1985 in an attempt to control the large outflows of capital from South Africa at that time.

While the abolition of the financial rand marked the end of capital controls on Non-Residents, controls remain in place on South African Residents to the present day ( September 2012 ).

Investments made in South Africa by non-residents could only be sold for financial rand, and limitations were placed on the convertibility of financial rand into foreign currencies.

* Financial Services Board ( South Africa ), a financial regulatory authority

The city had the third busiest port in the U. S. and its financial district was known as the " Wall Street of the South.

Economic recovery had been hampered by the separatist disputes in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, resistance to reform on the part of some corrupt and reactionary factions, and Asian financial crisis.

Although nationalist movements throughout the colonial world led to the political independence of nearly all of the Asia's remaining colonies, decolonisation was intercepted by the Cold War ; and South East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia remained embedded in a world economic, financial, and military system in which the great powers compete to extend their influence.

Southern African transit point for South Asian hashish, South Asian heroin, and South American cocaine probably destined for the European and South African markets ; producer of cannabis ( for local consumption ) and methaqualone ( for export to South Africa ); corruption and poor regulatory capability makes the banking system vulnerable to money laundering, but the lack of a well-developed financial infrastructure limits the country's utility as a money-laundering center.

In 1720, the South Sea Company, created to trade in cotton, agricultural goods and slaves, collapsed, causing the financial ruin of thousands of investors and heavy losses for many others including members of the royal family.

Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, South Korea suffers perpetual damage to its credit rating in the stock market due to the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on the financial markets of the South Korean economy.

However, renowned financial organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund, also compliment the resilience of the South Korean economy against various economic crises, citing low state debt, and high fiscal reserves that can quickly be mobilized to address any expected financial emergencies.

South Korea was one of the few developed countries that was able to avoid a recession during the global financial crisis, and its economic growth rate will reach 6. 1 % in 2010, a sharp recovery from economic growth rates of 2. 3 % in 2008 and 0. 2 % in 2009 when the global financial crisis hit.

The name itself is a compound of " Kruger " ( the man depicted on the obverse ) and " rand ", the South African unit of currency.

Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, and South Africa also form a common currency and exchange control area known as the Rand Monetary Area that uses the South African rand as the common currency.

maloti ( M ) per US $ 1 – 7. 32 ( 2010 ), 6. 10948 ( 1999 ), 3. 62709 ( 1995 ); note-the Basotho loti is at par with the South African rand

The Namibian economy is closely linked to South Africa with the Namibian dollar pegged to the South African rand.

Swaziland issues its own currency, the lilangeni ( plural: emalangeni ), which is at par with the South African rand.

emalangeni ( E ) per US $ 1 – 7. 3 ( 2011 ), 7. 32 ( 2010 ), 8. 42 ( 2009 ), 7. 75 ( 2008 ), 7. 4 ( 2007 ), 10. 5407 ( 2002 ), 8. 6092 ( 2001 ), 6. 9398 ( 2000 ), 6. 1087 ( 1999 ), 5. 4807 ( 1998 ), 4. 6032 ( 1997 ), 4. 2706 ( 1996 ), 3. 6266 ( 1995 ); note-the Lilangeni is at par with the South African rand

The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the UK pound sterling, the South African rand and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.

one British pound sterling was equal to 257. 7172 kwacha, one US dollar was equal to 152. 2933 kwacha and one South African rand was equal to 23. 7740 kwacha.

Notable is the fact that Flintheart Glomgold's first coin could never be a rand because the South Africans utilized the South African pound from 1825 to 1961, when the South African Rand was introduced.

The 1990 and later releases of South African rand banknotes feature a different Big Five animal on each denomination.

* South African rand, officially ZAR but often written as SAR

* South African rand, the national currency of South Africa ( abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR ).

Hence he turned to South Africa — itself playing geo-political games in the region — which gave him a soft loan of 300 million rand.

* South African rand

The rand ( sign: R ; code: ZAR ) is the currency of South Africa.