Tag: africa

Cameroon

is a unitary republic of central and western Africa

Discovery

- A South African health insurance company

Iraqw

known as the Mbulu in Swahili, are a Cushitic people of the Arusha and Manyara Regions of north-central Tanzania, near the Rift Valley wall and south of Ngorongoro Crater

Safari

usually refered to as a trip by tourists to Africa

African people

continent is today home to many different groups of people with established culture and history in the land over several centuries

Black people

Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe African countries located south of the Sahara

Drum

In Africa, New Guinea and the tropical America, natives used drum telegraphy to communicate with each other from far away for centuries

Life imprisonment

sentence is mandatory for premeditated murder, gang rape, serial rape or if the rapist knew his HIV status to be positive

Medical school

In Egypt, medical school is a faculty of a university

PLATO

During the period when CDC was marketing PLATO, the system began to be used internationally. South Africa was one of the biggest users of PLATO in the early 1980s. Eskom, the South African electrical power company, had a large CDC mainframe at Megawa

Recent African origin of modern humans

Some 70 millennia ago, a part of the bearers of mitochondrial haplogroup L3 migrated from East Africa into the Near East

Special Branch

1. It is now the Crime Intelligence Unit which investigates crime but which continues to investigate groups perceived to be enemies of the state such as social movements
2. During Apartheid, the South African Police Services Special Branch was a much feared police unit often used to attack movements resisting apartheid