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  2. Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs - Wikipedia

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    The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (KL-YES) Program was established in October 2002. The program provides scholarships for high school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the United States. [5] The first class of YES students arrived in the United States in 2003.

  3. Black Economic Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Black Economic Empowerment ( BEE) is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people. A form of affirmative action, it is intended especially to redress the inequalities created by apartheid. The policy provides incentives – especially preferential treatment in government ...

  4. Social welfare programmes in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. The earliest form of social welfare programme in South Africa is the poor relief distributed by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in 1657. The institutionalised social welfare system was established after the British occupied the Cape Colony in 1806.

  5. Massmart - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .massmart .co .za. Massmart Holdings Limited is a South African firm that owns local brands such as Game, Makro, Builder's Warehouse and CBW. It is the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, the largest retailer of general merchandise, liquor and home improvement equipment and wholesaler of basic foods. [4]

  6. South Africa and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

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    Prime Minister P.W. Botha speech at the opening of the Kentron Circle covert nuclear weapons facility in May 1981 South Africa developed a small finite deterrence arsenal of gun-type fission weapons in the 1980s. Six were constructed and another was under construction at the time the program ended. As the final production model contained a relatively large amount of highly enriched uranium ...

  7. Project Coast - Wikipedia

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    Project Coast was a 1980s top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa.Project Coast was the successor to a limited postwar CBW program, which mainly produced the lethal agents CX powder and mustard gas, as well as non-lethal tear gas for riot control purposes.

  8. African Leadership Academy - Wikipedia

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    16 to 19. Website. https://www.africanleadershipacademy.org. The African Leadership Academy ( ALA) is an educational institution located in the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, for students between the ages of 16 and 19 years old, with current alumni coming from 46 countries. Founded in 2004 by Fred Swaniker, Chris Bradford, Peter ...

  9. Matimba Power Station - Wikipedia

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    The turbine's Maximum Continuous Rating is 35.60%. The power station was commissioned between 1988 and 1993. Matimba is the largest direct dry-cooled power station in the world. [1] The use of dry-cooling technology has considerably reduced water consumption at the plant relative to those using wet-cooling systems. [2]