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Scorched

Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate, a 2007 book about the effects of climate change on South Africa


2005–06 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa

The 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa was an A1 Grand Prix race, held on the weekend of 29 January 2006 at a street course in Durban, South Africa.

2007–08 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa

(1) = Narain Karthikeyan had qualified the car for India but was injured later, and replaced by Parthiva Sureshwaren for the balance of the race meet, incurring a penalty of being sent to the rear of the field for the driver change.

AIMS International

The decision to change the association's name to AIMS International was taken by the General Assembly at the Annual General Meeting in Cape Town in 2008.

Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin

He documented holidays to the Cape, Johannesburg and Bulawayo in the period 1906 to 1914, also compiling albums from trips in Europe.

America – South Africa

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn describes the album as a mix of "African rhythms, township melodies, and the Ensemble's usual array of blistering solos, vocal effects, percussive colors, and furious collective improvisations".

Andrew Jordaan

All of his appearances were in the Howa Bowl, a South African cricket competition which was contested between Eastern Province, Natal, Transvaal and Western Province.

Beaufort Series

The Beaufort Series covers the entire Karoo, Transkei, Pondoland, eastern Orange Free State and western Natal, while the overlying Stormberg Series covers the entire Lesotho and surrounding areas.

Between Hitler and Stalin

In a chronological manner, Nowytski's film unfolds during the years of Soviet-Nazi collaboration recounting the losses and suffering of the Ukrainian people; the documentary shifts to the destruction wrought by Joseph Stalin's scorched earth policy as the Soviet Union military retreated, and shows the ruins left behind by the German and then the Soviet offensives.

Braimah Kamoko

Braimah first rose to prominence by winning a bronze medal in the Heavyweight 1999 All-Africa Games organized in Johannesburg, South Africa from 10 September to 18 September.

Cacadu District Municipality

The municipality is a new, multi-ethnic administration, formed by the ANC government through the merging of the predominantly Afrikaans-speaking western part of the Eastern Cape, together with Xhosa areas near the Fish river, and the English district of Albany (with its own distinctive local culture, dating back to the 1820 settlers).

Cape grysbok

The Cape or southern grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) is a small antelope that is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa between Albany and the Cederberg mountains.

Charlie Llewellyn

Born out of wedlock in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and a black Saint Helenan mother, the dark-eyed and dark-skinned Llewellyn had an underprivileged upbringing in Natal being considered of mixed blood.

Communist Party of Canada candidates, 1979 Canadian federal election

In 2005, African National Congress members on the Durban Municipal Council proposed renaming Kloof Memorial Park in his honour.

Crisped rice

Guoba - sometimes known as mi guoba (lit. rice guoba) is a Chinese food ingredient consisting of scorched rice.

Cynthia Farrelly Gesner

Cynthia married former Sinbad star Zen Gesner from the television series The Adventures of Sinbad in 1997, he is also the son of actress Nan Martin, together they have 3 sons: Finn Harry Gesner (b. 24 July 1997 in Cape Town, South Africa), Rory Farrelly Gesner (b.

Defiance Campaign

The Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws was presented by the African National Congress (ANC) at a conference held in Bloemfontein, South Africa in December 1951.

Donald B. Beary

Mount Vernon was in the Atlantic Ocean as part of a convoy steaming from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, bound for Cape Town, South Africa, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, brought the United States into World War II on 7 December 1941.

Emil Holub

Inspired to visit Africa by the diaries of David Livingstone, Holub travelled to Cape Town, South Africa shortly after graduation and eventually settled near Kimberley to practise medicine.

Franz Pfanner

Franz Pfanner (born at Langen, Vorarlberg, Austria, 1825; died at Emaus, South Africa, 24 May 1909) was an Austrian Trappist monk, founder of Mariannhill Abbey in South Africa.

Gertrud Theiler

Born on 11 September 1897 in Pretoria, South Africa, Theiler graduated from Pretoria Girls’ High School and spent a year at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa, before transferring to South African College in Cape Town, where she graduated in 1918 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Gustav Imroth

He was born in Friedberg, Germany in 1862 into a Jewish banking family, travelled first to London in 1880, where he was naturalised British, and then to Kimberley, South Africa in 1884 to work in the diamond industry for Dunkelsbuhler and Company alongside his cousins Louis Oppenheimer and Fredrich Hirschhorn.

Harts River

The Little Harts River which rises near Coligny joins the Great Harts River, which rises near Lichtenburg, to form the main river.

História trágico-marítima

- the wreck the great galleon, São João, captained by Manoel de Sousa Sepulveda, off the coast of Natal, South Africa in 1552.

Huguenot Tunnel

It extends the N1 national road through the Du Toitskloof mountains that separate Paarl from Worcester, providing a route that is safer, faster (between 15 and 26 minutes) and shorter (by 11 km) than the old Du Toitskloof Pass travelling over the mountain.

In Search of Sunrise 8: South Africa

In Search of Sunrise 8: South Africa is a compilation album by Dutch trance producer Richard Durand.

Jews for Judaism

Jews for Judaism has 6 international offices located in: Los Angeles, California, Baltimore, Maryland/Washington in the United States; Toronto, Canada; Jerusalem, Israel; Sydney, Australia and Johannesburg, South Africa.

John Ruston

In 1976 Ruston took up an appointment as Archdeacon of Bloemfontein and as an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein and warden and chaplain of St Michael’s School, Bloemfontein.

Ruston was ordained to the episcopacy as Bishop Suffragan of Pretoria, being sent to oversee the Archdeaconry of the North centred on Pietersburg (now Polokwane).

Kill Speed

The film is set in the scorched desert of Southern California and Keegan, Quinn, Natalia Cigliuti, Nick Carter, Reno Wilson, Christian Monzon and Greg Grunberg play characters involved in a high-octane “TOP GUN” meets “FAST & FURIOUS” type tale about best friends who fly super fast, high-tech, experimental airplanes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.

KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

In April 2011, the orchestra played the world premiere of Bongani Ndodana-Breen's opera Winnie the Opera at the State Theatre, Pretoria, with soprano Tsakane Maswanganyi in the title role of Winnie Mandela.

Libby Tanner

Tanner starred as "Lizzie" in the Australian TV production "Scorched" with former All Saints' co-star Georgie Parker.

Lined catshark

The lined catshark or banded catshark (Halaelurus lineatus) is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found from Beira, Mozambique to East London, South Africa between latitudes 19° S and 31° S, from the surface to 290 m.

Neil Dexter

Dexter attended Northwood School, Durban North, South Africa, Downside School, Bath, UK and studied at the University of South Africa.

New Covenant Ministries International

NCMI started in South Africa, around 1982 with a group of church leaders meeting together in Bryanston, a suburb of Johannesburg, to build relationships and discuss issues in their churches.

No-FEAR Act

The EPA had refused to promote Coleman-Adebayo shortly after she alleged the presence of environmental and health problems at the Brits, South Africa, vanadium mines.

One Economy Corporation

In addition to the global Beehives in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Turkey, Cameroon, Rwanda, Kenya, Jordan, South Africa, Israel, and Mexico, One Global Economy also operates a computer center in Durban, South Africa and recently partnered with e-Mexico to open a community technology center in Mexico City.

Pardon for Morant, Handcock and Witton

Following four separate courts martial in early 1902, during the Second Boer War, Lieutenants Peter Joseph Handcock (1868-1902) and Harry Harbord Morant (1864-1902), also known as "Breaker" Morant, of the Bushveldt Carbineers, were executed by a firing squad of Cameron Highlanders, in Pretoria, South Africa, on 27 February 1902, 18 hours after they had been sentenced.

Penzberg

In order to follow Hitler`s "scorched earth" policy the local Nazi leaders wanted to blow up the coal mine which was the economic life blood of the town (The End by Ian Kershaw - p344), so, on 28 April 1945 Hans Rummer (the social democratic mayor of Penzberg until the Nazi takeover in 1933) and others deposed the Nazi mayor.

Renaming in South Africa

The KwaZulu-Natal province was formed in 1994 from the merger of the then province of Natal and former homeland of KwaZulu.

Robert Deane, 9th Baron Muskerry

Born in Grahamstown, South Africa, he is married to Rita, Lady Muskerry and is resident in Durban, South Africa.

Robin Lee Graham

Graham spent nine months in South Africa, calling on ports along the southern edge of the continent including East London, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Stilbaai, Struisbaai, Gordon's Bay and finally Cape Town.

Rough Aunties

Rough Aunties is a 2008 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto about a group of women who protect and care for abused, neglected and forgotten children in Durban, South Africa.

Sekele language

A variety currently being investigated is Mangetti Dune !Kung, spoken by a resettled diaspora community of 500–1000 in Namibia and South Africa in the settlements of Mangetti Dune and Omtaku (Omatako?), east of Grootfontein, Namibia, halfway to the Botswana border; and in Schmidtsdrif, west of Kimberly, South Africa.

Selmar Schonland

Professor Selmar Schonland (15 August 1860 Frankenhausen, Germany as Selmar Schönland – 22 April 1940 Grahamstown, Cape Province), the founder of the Botany Department at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern Cape in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum.

South African Archaeological Society

Branches of the Society were established and currently exist in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban/Pietermaritzburg and Bloemfontein/Kimberley.

South African Class A 4-8-2T

In the NGR era the Class D fleet remained in service on the Natal mainline until they were eventually displaced by more modern locomotives.

Wilfrid Napier

Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM (born 8 March 1941) is a South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban, South Africa.


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