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  2. Baby hatch - Wikipedia

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    A baby hatch was installed by Door of Hope Children's Mission (Hole in the Wall) in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1999 after the pastor, Cheryl Allen, learned that a high number of newly born infants were abandoned. Pastor Allen realised that many of those desperate women and girls may well have acted differently if there had been an alternative.

  3. History of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Jan van Riebeeck, first Commander of the Dutch East India Company colony Groot Constantia, the oldest wine estate in South Africa, was founded in 1685 by Simon van der Stel. The South African wine industry (New World wine) is among the lasting legacy of the VOC era. The recorded economic history of South Africa began with the VOC period.

  4. Cecilia Makiwane - Wikipedia

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    Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in Victoria East, a district about 10 km away from Alice in what was the Cape Colony. [1] Her father was Reverend Elijah Makiwane, a pioneering clergyman and the second Black minister ordained in the Presbyterian Church, who was trained in South Africa.

  5. Hatching (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    De la Colombière also mentions the book publishers and copperplate engravers as the users of the hatching system. [1] Ottfried Neubecker maintains that the hatching system in heraldry was invented by de la Colombière and not Petra Sancta who only popularized the system through his second treatise titled Tesserae gentilitiae, published in 1638.

  6. List of women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    Founded Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, the first founded by a layperson, the first founded by a woman, and the first to offer free education to anyone. [40] 1608 Juliana Morell: First woman to earn a doctorate degree. [41] 1678 Elena Cornaro Piscopia: First woman to earn a Philosophy doctorate degree. [42] [43] 1732 Laura Bassi

  7. History of women's rights in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Research by the Gender Advocacy Program (GAP) found that black women have fewer opportunities for education, employment, economic participation, and political participation. [7] This is further exacerbated when looking at apartheid's effects on black women's social standing in South Africa. It caused separate development, and the differences ...

  8. List of South African inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Originally founded to measure projectiles for the defense industry, FlightScope is a global high-tech company and world leader in the development and manufacturing of 3D Doppler Ball Tracking Monitors, Golf Radars & Launch Monitors for sports. The company was the first worldwide to create a launch monitor capable of tracking a golf ball.

  9. Feminism in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    On May 2, 1990, the African National Congress released a statement titled "The Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the Emancipation of Women in South Africa", which was the first national acknowledgment of the need for gender equity in order to advance a truly democratic nation.