8 résultats pour "afrikaner"
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La Littérature afrikaner
la chose au sérieux. Ils fondent le Genoot skap van Regle Afrikaners (Société des Vrais Afrikaners) pour combattre l'anglicisation croissante et pour tenter d'élever l'afrikaans à la dignité de -langue nationale. Leur or gane est le journal Die Patriot (Le Pa triote). L'influence de ce mouvement ne dépasse pas d'abord les régions rurales au tour de la ville du Cap, mais il prend un certain élan, lorsqu'en 1877-81, il donne son...
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Boer War - history.
On January 10, 1900, the British general Frederick S. Roberts was sent to replace Buller as commander in chief. (Buller, however, remained to fight throughout the war.)Early in February, Roberts ordered the British commander John D. P. French north to relieve the city of Kimberley; French’s objective was attained four days later.Simultaneously, Roberts undertook a northeastward march from Cape Colony into the Orange Free State. Attacked by the Afrikaner general Piet Cronje on February 27,Roberts...
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Scramble for Africa.
additional territorial grabs. The most significant of these rules stated that colonial powers were obligated to notify each other when they claimed African territory.Further, subsequent “effective occupation” of the claimed area was necessary for the claim to remain valid. Through it all, as Europeans negotiated their rights toAfrican territory, not a single African was present. Once the conference was over, it was clear that a European Scramble for African territories was underway. Southern Afr...
- Afrikaner ou Afrikaander, nom donné aux habitants de la République d'Afrique du Sud, descendants des colons hollandais ou français huguenots installés à la fin du XVII e siècle.
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Zimbabwe - country.
contamination—especially from the dieldrin and DDT used in tsetse fly control—has significantly affected wildlife and human health. III PEOPLE AND SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE In 2008 Zimbabwe’s population was estimated to be 12,382,920, giving the country a population density of 32 persons per sq km (83 per sq mi). With a birth rate of27 per 1,000 and a death rate of 22 per 1,000, Zimbabwe’s population growth rate is 0.6 percent. Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 40 years in 2008, downfrom 59...
- Boer War.
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Afrique du sud.
veld Les livres veld, page 5437, volume 10 Afrique du Sud - paysage de la province du Cap, au sud-ouest de la ville, page 84, volume 1 Les aspects humains. Les Sud-Africains se partageaient, selon la classification officielle, en Noirs, Blancs, Métis (Coloured ) et Asiatiques. La forte natalité des Noirs (38 ‰), très supérieure à celle des autres groupes, et surtout à celle des Blancs (8,3 ‰), a donné à ce groupe ethnique un poids croissant dans la population. Les Noirs sont officiellem...
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South Africa - country.
The major soil zones are conditioned largely by climatic factors. In the semiarid north and west, soils are alkaline and poorly developed. In the southern part of WesternCape Province, rain falls mostly in the winter months, and soils there form slowly and are generally thin and immature. The moderate temperatures and summer rainfallof the High Veld and eastern coastal areas create conditions for more productive organic decomposition, leading to dark, fertile soils, or chernozems, similar to tho...