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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industrialists who set about restoring the economy of Western Europe after the ravages of World War II? What about the founders of some of the conglomerates in the rest of the world? It was not only the U.S. that influenced the economy of the 20th century. PHILIP ANDREW QVIST Gauteng, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Once known as Libertas, the presidential mansion in Pretoria is now officially named Mahlamba'ndlopfu (Dawn of a New Era) in Shangaan. The Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging region, South Africa's industrial heart, is now simply called Gauteng (Place of Gold) in Sotho. The Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (named for the architect of apartheid) has become the Gariep Dam, gariep being an ancient African word for wilderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LAND SINGING TWIN ANTHEMS | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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