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The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

The South African Sugarcane Industry

A preliminary s~rvey was conducted to provide an esti~ate of the seventy of red rot (Glomerella tucumanensis) I~ vanous parts of the sugar industry. The incidence of this dIsea~e was greater in the higher altitude areas, with long growing cycles, and where crops were damaged by sesamia or eldana borers. The most severe case observed was 52% of stalks of NC0376 infected in a field at Kranskop. S...

Haiti: The South African perspective.

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM STATEMENT: The South African response to the Haitian earthquake consisted of two independent non-government organisations (NGOs) working separately with minimal contact. Both teams experienced problems during the deployment, mainly owing to not following the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) guidelines. CRITICAL AREAS IDENTIFIED To impr...

South African History [Apartheid]

After the Second World War, in 1948, the NP, with its ideology of apartheid that brought an even more rigorous and authoritarian approach than the segregationist policies of previous governments, won the general election. It did so against the background of a revival of mass militancy during the 1940s, after a period of relative quiescence in the 1930s when black groups attempted to foster unit...