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  2. 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.

  3. History of science and technology in Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Great Rift Valley of Africa provides critical evidence for the evolution of early hominins.The earliest tools in the world can be found there as well: An unidentified hominin, possibly Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops, created stone tools dating to 3.3 million years ago at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin, eastern Africa.

  4. 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.

  5. List of women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African woman and first Arab woman to earn a pilot's license. 1937 Sabiha Gökçen: The first military woman to fly combat missions. 1948 Daisy Pon The first woman aeronautical engineering graduate in Canada. A graduate of the University of Toronto. [19] October 17, 1951 Touria Chaoui: The first Moroccan and Maghrebi female pilot [20] May ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Incubator (egg) - Wikipedia

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    The incubator is recorded being used to hatch bird and reptile eggs. It lets the fetus inside the egg grow without the mother needing to be present to provide the warmth. Chicken eggs are recorded to hatch after about 21 days, but other species of birds can take a longer or shorter amount of time. [10] Incubators are also used to raise birds. [11]

  9. 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.