The municipality has a total area of 3,334 km². Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. Breede Valley Municipality, Western Cape (north) Breede River Municipality, Western Cape (northeast) Swellendam Municipality, Western Cape (southeast) Theewaterskloof Municipality, Western Cape (southwest) Breede Valley Municipality, Western Cape (west) ...

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Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape, Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape - Government, Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Breede River/Winelands Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 4,263 km². Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. Cederberg Municipality, Western Cape (north) Witzenberg Municipality, Western Cape (east) Drakenstein Municipality, Western Cape (south) Swartland Municipality, Western Cape (south) Saldanha Bay Municipality, Western Cape (southwest) See also:

Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape, Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape - Government, Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Bergrivier Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 991 km². Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. Kou-Kamma Municipality, Eastern Cape (north, northeast) Aberdeen Plain Municipality, Eastern Cape (east) Knysna Municipality, Western Cape (west) South Cape Municipality, Western Cape (northwest) The municipality also borders the Indian Ocean on the south. ...

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Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape, Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape - Government, Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Bitou Local Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 16,334 km². Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. Ubuntu Municipality, Northern Cape (north) Central Karoo Municipality, Western Cape (northeast) Aberdeen Plain Municipality, Eastern Cape (southeast) Prince Albert Municipality, Western Cape (south) Laingsburg Municipality, Western Cape (southwest) Karoo-Hoogland Municipality, Northern Cape (northwest) There is also a small exclave ...

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Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape, Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape - Government, Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Beaufort West Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The most violent time of the 1980s were 1985–88, when the P.W. Botha government embarked on a savage campaign to eliminate opposition. For three years police and soldiers patrolled South African towns in armed vehicles, destroying black squatter camps and detaining, abusing and killing thousands of blacks and coloureds. Rigid censorship laws tried to conceal the events by banning media and newspaper coverage. In the early 1980s, the white government began to admit the need for change, due to a combination of internal violence, inter ...

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Amidst this turmoil, an even darker shadow began to move across South Africa. In 1982, the first recorded death from HIV occurred in the country. Within a decade, the number of recorded AIDS cases had risen to over 1,000, and by the mid-1990s, it had reached 10,000. Yet, these officially recorded cases were only the tip of the iceberg, with some estimates placing the actual number of HIV-positive cases at close to one million in 1995. Fuelled by the entrenched migrant labour system at South Africa's mines, AIDS is estimated to have been spre ...

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The darky icon itself—googly-eyed, with inky skin; exaggerated white, pink or red lips; and bright, white teeth—became a common motif first in the U.S., then worldwide, in entertainment, children's literature, mechanical banks and other toys and games of all sorts, cartoons and comic strips, advertisements, jewelry, textiles, postcards, sheet music, food branding and packaging, and other consumer goods. In 1895, the Golliwogg surfaced in Great Britain, the product of American-born children's book illustrator Florence Kate Upton, w ...

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Over time, blackface and darky iconography became artistic and stylistic devices associated with art deco and the Jazz Age. By the 1950s and '60s, particularly in Europe, where it was more widely tolerated, blackface became a kind of outré, camp convention in some artistic circles. The Black and White Minstrel Show was a popular British musical variety show that featured blackface performers, and remained on British television until 1978. Actors and dancers in blackface appeared in music videos such as Taco Ockerse's "Puttin' on the Ritz" and Grace Jones's "Slave to the ...

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The municipality has a total area of 10,759 km². Cape Winelands District Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent Municipalities. Namaqualand Municipality, Northern Cape (north) Hantam Municipality, Northern Cape (north) Karoo-Hoogland Municipality, Northern Cape (northeast) Laingsburg Municipality, Western Cape (east) Kannaland Municipality, Western Cape (east) Langeberg Municipality, Western Cape (south) Swellendam Municipality, Western Cape (south ...

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Cape Winelands District Municipality Western Cape, Cape Winelands District Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Cape Winelands District Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent Municipalities, Cape Winelands District Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Cape Winelands District Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 7,347 km². Cederberg Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. Matzikama Municipality, Western Cape (north) Hantam Municipality, Northern Cape (northeast) Namaqualand Municipality, Northern Cape (east) Witzenberg Municipality, Western Cape (southeast) Bergrivier Municipality, Western Cape (south) There is a partial exclave of West Coast Municipality, Western Cape near the centre of the municipality. Th ...

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Cederberg Municipality Western Cape, Cederberg Municipality Western Cape - Government, Cederberg Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Cederberg Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Cederberg Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Cederberg Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 2,411 km². Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalites. Swellendam Municipality, Western Cape (north) Overberg Municipality, Western Cape (east) Overstrand Municipality, Western Cape (southwest) Theewaterskloof Municipality, Western Cape (northwest) The municipality also borders the Atlantic and Indian oceans on the south. ...

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Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape, Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape - Government, Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalites, Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Cape Agulhas Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 2,995 km². Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalites. Witzenberg Municipality, Western Cape (north) Breede River Municipality, Western Cape (north), (east) Breede River/Winelands Municipality, Western Cape (southeast) Theewaterskloof Municipality, Western Cape (south) Stellenbosch Municipality, Western Cape (sou ...

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Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape, Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape - Government, Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalites, Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Breede Valley Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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Despite its racist portrayals, blackface minstrelsy was the conduit through which African-American and African-American-influenced music, comedy, and dance first reached the American mainstream. It played a seminal role in the introduction of African-American culture to world audiences. Wrote jazz historian Gary Giddings in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903-1940: Though antebellum (minstrel) troupes were white, the form developed in a form of racial collaboration, illustrating the axiom that defines—and ...

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Blackface, Blackface - History and the shaping of racist archetypes, Blackface - Blackface and darky iconography, Blackface - Modern-day manifestations, Blackface - The Netherlands' Zwarte Piet, Blackface - The coons of Cape Town and Auckland, Blackface - In the U.S., Blackface - Blackface minstrelsy and world popular culture, Blackface - Blackface spinoffs, Blackface - Compare, Blackface - Bibliography

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The municipality has a total area of 5,585 km². Central Karoo District Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. Ubuntu Municipality, Northern Cape (north) Camdeboo Municipality, Eastern Cape (southeast) Aberdeen Plain Municipality, Eastern Cape (south) Beaufort West Municipality, Western Cape (west) There is also a ...

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Central Karoo District Municipality Western Cape, Central Karoo District Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Central Karoo District Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Central Karoo District Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Central Karoo District Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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The municipality has a total area of 1,059 km². Knysna Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities. South Cape Municipality, Western Cape (north) Plettenberg Bay Municipality, Western Cape (east) George Municipality, Western Cape (west) The municipality also borders the Indian Ocean on the south. ...

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Knysna Municipality Western Cape, Knysna Municipality Western Cape - Government, Knysna Municipality Western Cape - Geography, Knysna Municipality Western Cape - Adjacent municipalities, Knysna Municipality Western Cape - Demographics, Knysna Municipality Western Cape - Cities and towns

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South Africa is located at the extreme south of Africa, with a long coastline that stretches more than 2,500 kilometres (1,550 mi) and across two oceans (the Atlantic and the Indian). South Africa has a great variety of climate zones, from the extreme desert of the Kalahari near Namibia to lush subtropical climate along the border with Mozambique. It quickly rises over a mountainous escarpment towards the interior plateau known as the Highveld. Even thou ...

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South Africa, South Africa - Languages, South Africa - History, South Africa - Government, South Africa - Politics, South Africa - Provinces, South Africa - Geography, South Africa - Flora and fauna, South Africa - Economy, South Africa - Agriculture, South Africa - Demographics, South Africa - Culture, South Africa - Crime, South Africa - Military, South Africa - Media, South Africa - International rankings

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South Africa has more than 20,000 different plants, or about 10 percent of all the known species of plants on Earth, making it particularly rich in plant biodiversity. South Africa's most prevalent biome is grassland, particularly on the Highveld, where the plant cover is dominated by different grasses, low shrubs, and acacia trees, mainly camel-thorn and whitethorn. Vegetation becomes even more sparse towards the northwest due to low rainfall. There are several species of water-storing succulents like aloes and euphorbias in the very ...

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South Africa, South Africa - Languages, South Africa - History, South Africa - Government, South Africa - Politics, South Africa - Provinces, South Africa - Geography, South Africa - Flora and fauna, South Africa - Economy, South Africa - Agriculture, South Africa - Demographics, South Africa - Culture, South Africa - Crime, South Africa - Military, South Africa - Media, South Africa - International rankings

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South Africa is a middle-income country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange (the JSE Securities Exchange), that ranks among the 10 largest in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centres throughout the region. South Africa's per capita GDP, corrected for purchasing power parity, positions the country as one of the 50 wealthiest in the world. In many respects, South Africa is develop ...

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South Africa, South Africa - Languages, South Africa - History, South Africa - Government, South Africa - Politics, South Africa - Provinces, South Africa - Geography, South Africa - Flora and fauna, South Africa - Economy, South Africa - Agriculture, South Africa - Demographics, South Africa - Culture, South Africa - Crime, South Africa - Military, South Africa - Media, South Africa - International rankings

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When apartheid ended in 1994, the South African government had to integrate the formerly independent and semi-independent Bantustans into the political structure of South Africa. To this end, it abolished the four former provinces of South Africa (Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal) and replaced them with nine fully integrated provinces. The new provinces are usually much smaller than the former provinces, which theoretically is in order to ...

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South Africa, South Africa - Languages, South Africa - History, South Africa - Government, South Africa - Politics, South Africa - Provinces, South Africa - Geography, South Africa - Flora and fauna, South Africa - Economy, South Africa - Agriculture, South Africa - Demographics, South Africa - Culture, South Africa - Crime, South Africa - Military, South Africa - Media, South Africa - International rankings

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South Africa has a bicameral Parliament, comprising the National Council of Provinces (or upper house) with 90 members, and a National Assembly (or lower house) with 400 members. Members of the lower house are elected on a population basis by proportional representation: half of the members are elected from national lists and half are elected from provincial lists. Ten members are elected to represent each province in the National Council of Provinces, regardless of the population of the province. Elections for both chambers are held every five years. The government is ...

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South Africa, South Africa - Languages, South Africa - History, South Africa - Government, South Africa - Politics, South Africa - Provinces, South Africa - Geography, South Africa - Flora and fauna, South Africa - Economy, South Africa - Agriculture, South Africa - Demographics, South Africa - Culture, South Africa - Crime, South Africa - Military, South Africa - Media, South Africa - International rankings

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South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological sites in Africa. Extensive fossil remains at the Sterkfontein, Kromdraai and Makapansgat caves suggest that various australopithecines existed in South Africa from about three million years ago. These were succeeded by various species of Homo, including Homo habilis, Homo erectus and modern man, Homo sapiens. Bantu iron-using agriculturists and herdsmen moved south of the Limpopo River into modern-day South Africa by the 4th or 5th century (the Bantu expansio ...

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South Africa, South Africa - Languages, South Africa - History, South Africa - Government, South Africa - Politics, South Africa - Provinces, South Africa - Geography, South Africa - Flora and fauna, South Africa - Economy, South Africa - Agriculture, South Africa - Demographics, South Africa - Culture, South Africa - Crime, South Africa - Military, South Africa - Media, South Africa - International rankings

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The Republic of South Africa is a constitutional democracy with a three-tiered system of government and an independent judiciary, operating under a parliamentary system. However, unlike republics with Westminster-style parliamentary systems, the President is both Head of State and Head of Government. The minimum age for voting in South Africa is 18. In the first post-apartheid elections, permanent residents as well as citizens were allowed to vote. In all ...

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