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Politicians and Activists: Nelson Mandela: The first democratically elected president of South Africa and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his role in the fight against apartheid. F.W. de Klerk: The last State President of South Africa under apartheid and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his role in the country's transition to democracy.
Local Insight Yellow Pages, Inc. was founded in 1984 as Alltel Publishing Corporation, and subsequently became Windstream's official directory publishing agent. Windstream Yellow Pages published directories for former Alltel wireline, as well as directories for TDS Telecom and KLM Telephone customers, as well numerous smaller independent telephone companies.
Happiness is a Four-Letter Word by Cynthia Jele, 2010 - winner of 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region and the M-Net Film Prize 2011 at the M-Net Literary Awards. Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart by Finuala Dowling , 2011 - winner of the M-Net Prize for English Fiction 2012.
55 successor TDs were elected 47 were elected for the first time; 8 had previously been TDs; There were 7 successor female TDs, replacing 6 outgoing, increasing the total number by 1 to 22; There were changes in 38 of 42 constituencies contested; Outgoing TDs are listed in the constituency they contested in the election.
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, [1] [2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948.
South Africa is the only country in Africa with a commercial nuclear power plant. [1] Two reactors located at the Koeberg nuclear power station account for around 5% of South Africa's electricity production. [2] Spent fuel is disposed of at Vaalputs Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in the Northern Cape.
Darling is a small town in a farming area on the west coast region of the Western Cape, about 75 km (46.6 mi) from Cape Town.. At the beginning of the 18th century, about 29 farmers lived in an area called Groenkloof and on one of these farms, Langfontein, Darling was founded in 1853.
Madibeng Local Municipality - Brits, North West. Brits (/ b r ə t s /) is a town in the North West Province of South Africa. It is situated in a fertile citrus, vegetable and grain-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam.