CGM1980

Hello from South Africa

There are some of us who forget how long the process of attempting to end apartheid went on.. Welcome! Gregorydavid 15:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I could see from your edits and work tempo that you are familiar with Wikipedia and have probably used other accounts too.Gregorydavid 05:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello, here is an image for: "Did you know?" Those of us who lived through the sanctions saw interest rates go through the roof!Gregorydavid 20:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

It is a hidden comment above. :) Gregorydavid 20:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Good work

Now that apartheid is all over I expect businessmen try to forget those times.. Gregorydavid 21:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 7 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Disinvestment from South Africa, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Yomangani^talk 00:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Sullivan Principles

Great job expanding the Sullivan Principles article. I had done a lot of work on the Leon Sullivan article and noticed your recent edits.

--Dovcamp 15:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Christopher Hitchens

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. As a member of the Wikipedia community, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information of living persons must not be libelous. Any controversial statements about a living person added to an article must include proper sources. Thank you. VanTucky ^(talk) 19:59, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Crime of apartheid template

You're right: the legal crime of apartheid was directly motivated by the situation in South Africa. It seems a bit odd for a navigational template to indicate cause-and-effect, but apparently the template has a section for that: "Instruments and legislation". I've changed the grey div to a blockquote; hopefully the article flows a bit better. Gracenotes^T § 05:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Allegations of Chinese apartheid AfD

Following your recent participation in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of French apartheid, you may be interested to know that a related article, Allegations of Chinese apartheid, is currently being discussed on AfD. Comments can be left at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of Chinese apartheid. -- ChrisO 15:55, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject South Africa

I have recently overhauled WikiProject South Africa with the following:

• Improving collaboration of participants by adding an Open tasks section with specific as well as common tasks
  • Added link to the CatScan tool to find articles needing cleanup, referencing and expanding
  • Added common tasks that should be performed on Portal:South Africa
  • Added information on how to add Geographical coordinates
  • Added articles missing Images
  • Added assessment information
• Improving the layout to make access to information easier
• Added simple "How can I help?" instructions for new project members
• Extended the Resources section to assist participants in finding South Africa related information
• Added bot generated Article alerts
• Added a bot generated Cleanup listing
• Added more information on template usage
• Added a section on language usage
• Improved the categories section with trees for category:South Africa Wikipedia administration and category:South Africa
• Added link to Wikipedia Books
• Marked inactive sections of the project as inactive

Comments, constructive criticism and suggestions for improving it further are welcome --NJR_ZA (talk) 07:22, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Stellenbosch to bid for Wikimania 2012!

Hi CGM1980!

The nascent South African Wikimedia chapter has decided to bid to host Wikimania in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2012. This would be the first Wikimania in South Africa, and would be a great advertisement for our country. Please take a look at meta:Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch. If you can add to the discussion, please do. If you feel that you are able to do anything to help, please join the Wikimedia South Africa mailing list and let us know. Even simple messages of support are valued!

Best regards,

David Richfield

Wiki Loves Monuments in South Africa

Dear WikiProject South Africa Wikipedians

This is an urgent call from Wikimedia South Africa. We are currently working hard on the South African side of the exciting international photographic competition, Wiki Loves Monuments [1]. We have been planning to make this national competition really take off, but to do so, we need your help! The competition starts on the 1st September, and we need your help now! If you are interested in being part of or can help the Wiki Loves Monuments national organising team, then please join here [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_South_Africa]. If you have limited time, but want to help out at an upload marathon at a heritage site near you, please then contact either Lourie [louriepieterse@yahoo.com] or Isla [islahf@africacentre.net]. We look forward to hearing from you!"

Kind regards, Lourie

Sent by Lucia Bot in 13:57, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!