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  2. Xhosa calendar - Wikipedia

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    The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from names of stars, plants, and flowers that grow or seasonal changes that happen at a given time of year in Southern Africa. The Xhosa year traditionally begins in June and ends in May when the brightest star visible in the Southern Hemisphere, Canopus, signals the time for harvesting. In urban areas today, anglicized ...

  3. East Rand - Wikipedia

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    The East Rand is a major urban area located in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is the urban eastern part of Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. The region extends from Alberton in the west to Springs in the east, and south down to Nigel. It includes the towns of Bedfordview, Benoni, Boksburg, Brakpan, Edenvale, Germiston, Kempton Park ...

  4. Import substitution industrialization - Wikipedia

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    Import substitution industrialization (ISI) is a protectionist trade and economic policy that advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production. [1] It is based on the premise that a country should attempt to reduce its foreign dependency through the local production of industrialized products. The term primarily refers to 20th-century development economics policies, but it has been ...

  5. Population Registration Act, 1950 - Wikipedia

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    The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. [1][2][3] Race classification certificate issued in terms of the Population Registration Act Explanation of South African identity numbers in an identity document during apartheid in terms of ...

  6. Intersymbol interference - Wikipedia

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    In telecommunications, intersymbol interference (ISI) is a form of distortion of a signal in which one symbol interferes with subsequent symbols. This is an unwanted phenomenon as the previous symbols have a similar effect as noise, thus making the communication less reliable. The spreading of the pulse beyond its allotted time interval causes it to interfere with neighboring pulses. [1] ISI ...

  7. Peter Alexander (fashion designer) - Wikipedia

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    Peter Alexander was born in 1965 in South Africa and then moved to Melbourne, Australia shortly afterwards. [1][2] He has two older sisters. Alexander attended boarding school at Geelong Grammar School for two years before returning home to Kew where he changed schools four times.

  8. Tessa Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Tessa Johnson is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

  9. Zulu Rock - Wikipedia

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    Zulu Rock is the third album of French singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux, which was released on ZE Records in 1984 and recorded at the Satbel Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa.