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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. [ 1]
Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa. A Spoornet Class 91-000 on the Avontuur Railway near Humansdorp. In the early 1900s, 2 ft ( 610 mm) narrow-gauge railway lines started playing a significant role in South Africa. They facilitated the transport of various agricultural and mineral produce from locations hardly accessible by road.
History of women's rights in South Africa. Under apartheid in South Africa, Apartheid laws and social norms assigned black women a lower status, leading to what is now known as the “triple oppression” of race, class, and gender. [ 1] Before the colonial era, women held significant authority in many African societies, including in agriculture.
Colonial racism. The region that would become modern-day South Africa was located in a position of advantage for European merchants who were seeking to organize and carry out trade in the East Indies, primarily Portuguese and Dutch colonists. [ 1] In 1652, the Dutch East India Company founded the Cape Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. [ 1]
Enrollment. 322. Website. www.owlag.co.za. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls – South Africa (OWLAG) is a boarding school for girls, grades 8–12, in Henley on Klip, Gauteng Province, South Africa. The school is a project begun by the American entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey in 2002, born out of a discussion she had ...
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 ...
In 1938, the Netherlands and South Africa officially established diplomatic relations. During World War II (1939-1945) both nations fought as allies. In 1948, the South African government, at the time representing only a small proportion of the population, erected a system of strict racial segregation and called it apartheid (separateness ...
July 29, 2024 at 3:15 PM. Kim Johnson, runner-up on “Survivor” Season 3, “Survivor: Africa,” and the oldest female finalist in series history, has died. She was 79. The place and cause of ...