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The common English names are those used by Tarboton (2015) and Tarboton and Tarboton (2015). Alternative names used by Tarboton and Tarboton (2002), Tarboton and Tarboton (2005), Samways (2008), and Dijkstra and Clausnitzer (2014) are given in brackets.
The primary administrative divisions of South Africa are the nine provinces. The provinces are divided into 52 districts, which are either metropolitan or district municipalities, with the district municipalities being further divided into local municipalities. Metropolitan and local municipalities are divided into wards.
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez—leading to the Suez Canal.
The San peoples were hunter-gatherers, who mostly depended on foods like tortoises, crayfish, coconuts and squash. Agriculture was introduced to South Africa by the Bantu peoples, who continue in the cultivation of grain, starch fruit and root tubers — in the manner of maize, squash and sweet potatoes, following their introduction in the Columbian exchange, displacing the production of many ...
The Union of South Africa was established in 1910 by combining four British colonies: Cape Colony; Natal Colony; Transvaal Colony; Orange River Colony.The last two were, before the Second Boer War, independent republics known as the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.
Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa.It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12]
PEP is a multinational retail company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Founded in 1965, PEP operated in 11 countries in Southern Africa with the opening of an outlet in Lobito, Angola in November 2008. [2] As of November 2009, the company reported over 1400 stores in operation, with total employment equalling 14,000 employees. It also owns and ...
Curry Mallet (anciently "Cory Mallett") [2] is a village and parish in Somerset, England. It is on the Fivehead River (also known as the River Ile), 7 miles (11.3 km) east of Taunton in the South Somerset district.