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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1933. James Louis Garvin, editor. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. Afrikaans, a language primarily descended from Dutch, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans purport to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the third most widely spoken home language in the country. The arrival of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India, in 1498 opened a gateway of free access to Asia from Western Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. This access necessitated the founding and safeguarding of trade stations along the African and Asian coasts. The Portuguese landed in Mossel Bay in 1498, explored Table Bay two years later, and by 1510 had started raiding inland. Shortly afterwards, the Dutch Republic sent merchant vessels to India and, in 1602, founded the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC). As the volume of traffic rounding the Cape increased, the VOC recognised its natural harbour as an ideal watering point for the long voyage around Africa to East Asia and established a victualling station there in 1652. VOC officials did not favour the permanent settlement of Europeans in their trading empire, although during the 140 years of Dutch rule many VOC servants retired or were discharged and remained as private citizens. Furthermore, the exigencies of supplying local garrisons and passing fleets compelled the administration to confer free status on employees and oblige them to become independent farmers. Encouraged by the success of this experiment, the company extended free passage from 1685 to 1707 for Dutch families wishing to settle at the Cape. In 1688, it sponsored the settlement of 200 French Huguenot refugees forced into exile by the Edict of Fontainebleau. The terms under which the Huguenots agreed to immigrate were the same as those offered to other VOC subjects, including free passage and the requisite farm equipment on credit. Prior attempts at cultivating vineyards or exploiting olive groves for fruit had been unsuccessful, and it was hoped that Huguenot colonists accustomed to Mediterranean agriculture could succeed where the Dutch had failed.Theale, George McCall (4 May 1882). Chronicles of Cape Commanders, or, An abstract of original manuscripts in the Archives of the Cape Colony. Cape Town: WA Richards & Sons 1882. pp 24—387. They were augmented by VOC soldiers returning from Asia, predominantly Germans channeled into Amsterdam by the company's extensive recruitment network and thence overseas. Despite their diverse nationalities, the colonists used a common language and adopted similar attitudes towards politics. The attributes they shared served as a basis for the evolution of Afrikaner identity and consciousness. In the twentieth century, Afrikaner nationalism took the form of political parties and closed societies, such as the Broederbond. In 1914, the National Party was founded to promote Afrikaner interests. It gained power by winning South Africa's 1948 general elections. The party was noted for implementing a harsh policy of racial segregation (apartheid) and declaring South Africa a republic in 1961. Following decades of domestic unrest and international sanctions that resulted in bilateral and multi-party negotiations to end apartheid, South Africa held its first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994. As a result of this election the National Party was ousted from power, and was eventually dissolved in 2005.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Carnarvon, South Africa

Carnarvon is a small town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.

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Congress of the People (South African political party)

The Congress of the People (COPE) is a South African political party formed in 2008 by former members of the African National Congress (ANC).

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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Democratic Alliance (South Africa)

The Democratic Alliance is a South African political party which is a part of the current South African Government of National Unity (GNU) together with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and several others.

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Dipuo Peters

Elizabeth Dipuo Peters (born 13 May 1960 in Kimberley, Northern Cape) is a South African politician who is the Deputy Minister of Small Business Development of the Republic of South Africa from 7 March 2023.

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Districts of South Africa

The nine provinces of South Africa are divided into 52 districts (sing. district, isifunda; isithili; distrikte; selete; kgaolo; setereke; xifundza; sigodzi; tshiṱiriki; isiyingi), which are either metropolitan or district municipalities.

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Economic Freedom Fighters

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a South African communist and black nationalist political party.

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Freedom Front Plus

The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus; Vryheidsfront Plus, VF Plus) is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994.

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Griqualand West

Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km2 that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Karoo

The Karoo (from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa.

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Late Stone Age

The Later Stone Age (LSA) is a period in African prehistory that follows the Middle Stone Age.

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Orange River

The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is a river in Southern Africa.

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Pixley ka Seme District Municipality

The Pixley ka Seme District Municipality (Pixley ka Seme-distriksmunisipaliteit; uMasipala weSithili sase Pixley ka Seme) is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Premier of the Northern Cape

The Premier of the Northern Cape is the head of government of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Prieska

Prieska is a town on the south bank of the Orange River, in the province of the Northern Cape, in western South Africa.

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Provinces of South Africa

South Africa is divided into nine provinces.

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San people

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Standard Time

South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho.

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Strydenburg

Strydenburg is a town in the east of the Northern Cape province in South Africa.

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Thembelihle Local Municipality

Thembelihle Municipality (Thembelihle Munisipaliteit), formerly known as Oranje-Karoo Municipality, is a local municipality within the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Vanderkloof

Vanderkloof is a town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Vanderkloof Dam

The Vanderkloof Dam (originally the P. K. Le Roux Dam) is situated approximately downstream from Gariep Dam and is fed by the Orange River, South Africa's largest river.

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Volkstaat

A Volkstaat ("People's State"), also called a Boerestaat, is a proposed White homeland for Afrikaners within the borders of South Africa, most commonly proposed as a fully independent Boer/Afrikaner nation.

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Warrenton, South Africa

Warrenton is an agricultural town of approximately 22,588 people in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, situated north of Kimberley on the Vaal River.

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White South Africans

White South Africans are South Africans of European descent.

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Williston, South Africa

Williston is a town in Northern Cape, South Africa.

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2009 South African general election

General elections were held in South Africa on 22 April 2009 to elect members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures.

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