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The Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs (KL-YES) are fully-funded student exchange programs administered by the U.S. Department of State. [1] YES includes the "inbound" program for students from close to 40 Muslim majority countries to study and live in the U.S., and the "outbound" program, called YES Abroad, for students from the U.S. to study in [2] selected YES countries.
Alleged spare bomb casings from South Africa's nuclear weapon programme. Their purpose is disputed. [138] South Africa produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early 1990s. In 1979, there was a detection of a putative covert nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, called the Vela incident. It has long been speculated that ...
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 ...
Education in South Africa is governed by two national departments, namely the Department of Basic Education (DBE), which is responsible for primary and secondary schools, and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), which is responsible for tertiary education and vocational training. Prior to 2009, both departments were ...
Shoprite Holdings Ltd (Shoprite) is Africa ’s largest supermarket retailer, operating 3,639 [3] stores across the continent (distribution of total operations as at 30 June 2024). The company's headquarters are in Brackenfell in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Shoprite is a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange ...
Website. unisa.ac.za. The University of South Africa (UNISA) [a] is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it ...
Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. [3] 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. [4] The institutionalised social welfare system was established after the British occupied the Cape Colony in ...
[105] [106] Waldo Stumpf—who led a project to dismantle South Africa's nuclear weapons program [107] —doubted Israel or South Africa would have contemplated a deal seriously, saying that Israel could not have offered to sell nuclear warheads to his country due to the serious international complications that such a deal could entail.