SOUTH AFRICA
(See also Afrikaans [Language]; Apartheid; Ronga [Language]; Sepedi [Language]; Sesotho [Language]; Tsonga [Language]; Tswana [Language]; Venda [Language]; Xhosa [Language]; Zulu [Language])
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
animals: yb07 70
antelope: g88 9/8 26-27
baboons stone autos: g97 11/22 28
dolphins assist in rescue: g88 4/22 29-30
Drakensberg area: g88 9/8 26-27
eland: g88 9/8 26
elephant: g01 5/8 29
giraffe attack: g87 3/22 30
klipspringer: g89 9/8 31
lions become man-eaters: g90 1/22 29
meerkat: g01 9/8 26-27
quagga: g93 4/22 24
rhino horn: g 1/13 3
seals: g90 12/22 29
sheep protected from jackals by collar: g00 6/8 29
steenbok: g93 1/8 31
whales: g91 6/8 29
white lions: g86 12/22 29
apartheid: yb07 67-69, 106; g86 7/22 4-6
Dutch Reformed attitude toward: w10 9/1 21; g92 3/8 31
overcoming prejudices: g20.3 11
religious background: g88 6/22 2-6; w87 11/1 29; w86 7/1 9
automobiles:
locating stolen, by satellite: g91 9/22 28
babies abandoned: g92 7/22 29
birds: g88 9/8 25, 27
bee-eater: g89 7/8 31
lammergeier: g88 9/8 27
laughing doves: g 8/09 24
ostrich farms: g88 9/22 29
white helmet shrike: g88 4/22 31
business:
dealers in African medicine: g86 7/22 31
factory refuses cash: g90 6/22 28
failures: g86 7/22 31
children:
abuse: g91 9/8 28
alcohol abuse: g03 11/8 29
effect of violent TV series: g87 4/8 30
rape: g93 9/22 29
sexual abuse by other children: g 8/07 29; g97 1/8 29
cities:
squatter camps: g92 12/8 31
crime: w96 11/1 4-5; g92 2/22 29
carjacking: g 10/06 12-14; g92 10/8 29
check fraud: g91 12/22 29
corruption: w15 1/1 3
employee theft: tp 18
juvenile: g90 10/22 29
marriage scam: g05 5/22 28
rape: g01 4/8 28-29; g93 9/22 29; g92 8/8 28
street robbery: w90 6/15 3
suspected auto hijackers killed: g96 6/8 29
description: yb07 67-70, 72
diamonds:
history: g05 11/22 16-19
Drakensberg Mountain range: yb07 146-147; g88 9/8 24-27
Durban: g 1/09 5, 7; g01 9/22 25-27
Dutch Reformed Church:
attitude toward apartheid: w10 9/1 21; g92 3/8 31; g86 7/22 4-6
attitude toward race: g88 6/22 4-6; w86 7/1 9; g86 7/22 4-6
comment of Professor Johan Heyns on Trinity: w87 6/15 21
debt: w88 2/15 21
view of world’s progress toward peace: w92 3/1 6
elderly people:
care for, declining: w88 7/15 21
families:
effect of industrialization: g86 4/8 15-17
surrogate mother bears own grandchildren: g88 1/8 30
flood:
conservationist convinced of authenticity of Deluge: w88 8/15 31
food:
milk: g87 10/22 28
mopane caterpillar: g98 6/22 29
beaches desegregated (1989): g90 2/22 28
health and disease:
AIDS: g02 6/8 29; g02 11/8 3-5
cervical cancer: g89 4/22 29
rabies: g93 10/22 28
tuberculosis: g99 3/22 29
history: g86 1/22 19-21; g86 7/22 4-5
homeless people: g88 3/8 3-4
immigration:
for employment: g88 4/22 3
illegal immigrants killed by animals: g98 3/22 28
industry:
battery-free radio: g97 5/8 29
use of old shipping containers: g94 12/8 29
interest in supernatural: g93 7/22 28
Johannesburg: w96 11/1 4-5; g94 1/8 10, 12; g88 3/8 3-4
murder: g93 11/8 29
Kruger National Park:
man-eating lions: g90 1/22 29
Nyalaland: g93 8/22 23-27
maps: yb10 21; yb07 73; w93 4/1 19; g88 9/8 24
medicine:
AIDS precautions for health-care workers: g92 6/22 31
bloodless medicine: g01 4/8 29
hepatitis from blood transfusion: g90 4/22 28
mines:
dangers: g95 11/22 28
deaths in gold mines: g90 12/22 29; g87 2/8 30
mystery spheres in Wonderstone Mine: g87 6/22 30
Namaqualand: g04 1/22 24-25
newspapers:
comment on Witnesses in Nazi Germany: w88 4/1 21
peoples: g86 1/22 19-20; g86 7/22 4-5
Ndebele people: w14 7/15 2
Zulus: g93 10/8 19-20; g92 3/8 25
plants:
banana: g03 3/22 16-18
cycad Encephalartos woodii: g96 4/8 28
flowers of Fynbos region: g01 6/22 16-19
noors: g04 7/22 24-25
pollution:
acid rain: g89 7/8 28
air: g89 7/8 28
population:
demography: w14 7/15 2; yb07 67, 72, 99
Postal Administration:
stamp having divine name is withdrawn: w88 5/15 27
prisons:
program of caring for birds: g00 5/8 25
racial conflict: g86 1/22 19-21; g86 7/22 3-6
railroads:
world’s longest and heaviest train: g90 4/8 29
religion:
Anglican clergy favor homosexuality: w96 7/1 6
Anglican Dean of Cape Town defends homosexuality: w89 3/1 5
apartheid: g88 6/22 4-6; w87 11/1 29; w86 7/1 9; g86 7/22 4-6
black theology: g88 6/22 7-8
Catholic attitude toward apartheid: g88 6/22 6
Catholic plan to eliminate racial discrimination: w89 11/15 7
decline: g 11/15 4
doomsday prophetess killed: g86 8/8 29
Easter customs: g86 3/22 4-5
military service: yb07 112-113
Protestant religions: g88 6/22 3-6
Satanism: g90 10/8 28
Soweto: g86 1/22 20
surplus milk dumped: g92 11/22 29
trees:
yellowwood: yb07 70-71
violence: g86 7/22 3
war: g88 9/8 25; g86 1/22 19-20
water shortage: g95 6/22 29
witch-hunts: g92 7/22 28; g86 6/22 30
women:
skin-lighteners: g 4/14 3
youths:
crime: g90 10/22 29
revenge on witches believed responsible for death by lightning: g86 6/22 30
Satanism: g93 4/8 28
sexual immorality: g98 12/8 29; w97 7/15 22-23
Zululand: g93 10/8 19-20
Jehovah’s Witnesses
assemblies: yb07 90, 98, 151-152
Assembly Halls: yb07 150-151
Midrand: yb07 150-151
ban on literature (1941-1944): yb07 86-87
Bethel family: w25.06 31; w21.07 26-28; yb09 29; yb07 84, 106-107
blood issue:
Cook, Wyndham: g93 6/22 32; g92 10/22 15-16; g91 8/22 13-15
Branch Committee: yb07 91, 108, 156-157; w93 4/1 22; w87 12/15 29; w86 7/1 13
branch office: jv 390-391; w87 12/15 27
Cape Town (1917): yb07 77, 124
Cape Town (1923): yb07 84; w87 12/15 27
Cape Town (1933): yb07 83-84, 86-87; w87 12/15 27
Durban (1910): yb07 74-75, 124; g01 9/22 27; w87 12/15 27
Elandsfontein (1952): yb07 105-108, 125; w93 4/1 22-23; jv 590-591; w87 12/15 27
Elandsfontein (1959): yb07 105-106
Elandsfontein (1972): yb07 108; jv 590-592, 594
Elandsfontein (1978): yb07 108
Krugersdorp area (Roodekrans) (1987): w21.07 29; yb07 125, 135-136; w93 4/1 23; jv 390; w87 12/15 26-29
Krugersdorp area (Roodekrans) (1999): yb07 125, 150; yb01 26-28
Krugersdorp area (Roodekrans) (2004): yb07 125, 150, 156-157
Krugersdorp area (Roodekrans) (2007): yb09 28-29
Krugersdorp area (Roodekrans) (2007 open house): w08 11/1 14-15
oversees Africa south of equator: yb10 68
oversees Mozambique: yb96 122, 124, 126, 130-132, 137, 139, 153, 175, 181
oversees Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) (1920’s): yb06 165-166
recording: yb07 87
branch overseers: lfs article 10; yb07 74, 82-83, 88-89, 108; g99 10/22 20; w93 4/1 22; w90 2/1 27-29
care for elderly: w88 7/15 22
children: w87 8/1 7; w86 9/1 4
expelled from school for neutrality: yb07 122-123, 128
colporteurs: jv 427
commendation:
honesty: w02 1/15 19
lady whose purse was returned: w95 12/15 27-28
magazine Personality: w95 12/15 29
priest commends unity: yb93 43
security officers: w02 7/15 25; w99 1/15 32; w95 12/15 27
stadium manager: w17.08 17-18
congregations: yb07 74-75, 92-93
Bible Students: jv 239
sign language for deaf: yb07 154-155
conventions: yb14 171; yb07 76, 110, 128-130, 174-175; w06 9/1 8-9; g01 9/22 27; yb00 10; yb95 10-13; w93 4/1 21-22; jv 282; yb90 12; yb87 17, 19; g86 1/22 21; g86 7/22 6-11
deaf field: yb07 154-155
video Jehovah Guarantees All That Is Good: lff lesson 35
discourse “Millions Now Living Will Never Die”: jv 426
division after C. T. Russell’s death (1916): yb07 77; w06 9/1 8
early witnessing: yb07 70-71, 74-79, 124; w06 9/1 8; jv 418, 430
booklets mailed: jv 439
effect of apartheid: foa article 6; yb07 69, 106-107, 119, 123, 128-130, 136, 151-152
faithful unto death: yb07 121-122; g93 5/8 9
Gilead attendees: w93 4/1 21-22
growth: kr 96; yb07 77, 85, 87, 90, 101, 106, 124-125, 136, 175; yb01 28; w93 4/1 23; jv 390; w87 12/15 27, 29
honesty: ijwex article 12
Kingdom Halls: yb07 98, 124-125, 130, 135-143; w01 1/15 11; yb99 26; yb96 25; km 8/96 3; yb95 22; yb94 15-16; jv 322; yb93 43; w86 7/1 30
Regional Kingdom Hall Office: yb07 143
town councillor’s sleepless night: w97 11/15 32
Kingdom Ministry School: w06 9/1 11
legal matters:
association Jehovah’s Witnesses of South Africa: yb07 130, 135; w93 4/1 23
Bethel family members not employees (2009): yb10 16
Witness marriage officers: yb07 130, 135
literacy program: yb07 98
meetings:
Public Meeting campaign: yb07 90-91
Memorial: yb92 6-7
post office distributes invitations: yb08 12-13
missionaries: yb07 98, 100-101, 103-105; w92 6/15 24
modern history: yb07 67-175
time line: yb07 124-125
neutrality: yb07 109, 111-113, 118-123, 128; g93 5/8 9-10; yb89 44
answering demands for support from political groups: yb07 126-128
persecution:
attacked for political neutrality: yb07 119-122; g93 5/8 9
imprisonment for military neutrality: yb07 109, 111-118
school expulsions for neutrality: yb07 122-123, 128
persons:
Ancketill, Henry: yb07 82
Arnott, Harry: yb07 108
Bartlett, Milton and Sheila: yb07 98, 100-101
Benade, Gideon: yb07 118
Brookes, Rowen: yb07 114-117, 156
Busane, Josephat and Claudina: yb07 92-94; g93 10/8 19-22
Butt, Peter: yb07 137-138
Carikas, George and June: yb07 154
Celliers, Abraham: yb07 82-83
Cooke, Eric and Myrtle: yb07 105; jv 430; w92 6/15 24; w89 4/1 26-29
Cooke, John and Kathleen: w06 9/1 8-12; jv 430; w92 6/15 24
Coopsammy, Gopal and Susila: yb07 102-103
Dagostini, Franco and Debbie: w25.06 31
Daniels, G. A.: yb07 79
Danyleyko, Maxim and Happy: w18.08 13, 17
de Heer, Pieter: yb07 157
de Jager, Piet: yb07 78-79
Dieperink, Jannie: yb07 157
Dladla, Luke and Joyce: yb07 95, 99
Dlodlo, Elijah: yb07 119-120
Ebersohn, Frans: yb07 70-71; jv 418
Elleray, Isabella: yb07 103-105
Esterhuyse, Etienne: kr 96
Fourie, Stoffel: yb07 70-71, 74; jv 418
Garrard, Gerald: yb07 95
Jack, Andrew: yb07 84-85, 95
Jansen, Daniel: yb07 80-81
Johnston, William W.: yb07 74-77, 79, 82, 124; jv 521
Jordaan, William: g92 5/22 24-27
Kikot, John and Laura: w21.07 26-29; yb07 105
Kilgour, Doreen: yb07 103-105
Kunene, Elias: g93 10/8 19-21
Langa, Isaac: g86 1/22 21-22
Laurens, Merlene (Merle): lfs article 10
Leech, Dennis: yb07 105-106
Liang, Phyllis: lfs article 10
Malinda, Florah: yb07 120-121
Marx, Mike: yb07 109
Mase, Samuel: g86 1/22 21
Masondo, Andrew: yb07 95, 98-99
McLellan, Bill and Marilyn: yb07 105
McLuckie, Carmen: g99 10/22 20-24
McLuckie, Robert A.: g99 10/22 20-21, 24; w90 2/1 26-31
Mehl, Merlyn: w89 7/1 10-14
Mochekele, Tseleng: yb07 132-133
Molepo, Maria: yb07 131-132
Mthalane, Raymond: yb07 157
Muller, Frans: yb07 90, 108, 130, 157; w93 4/1 19-23
Napier, James: yb07 78
Nel, Gert: yb07 94-95
Nguluh, McCoffie: yb07 78
Nisbet, Robert: yb10 68-69; w03 4/1 27; jv 435
Nordin, Ken: yb07 105-106
Norman, David: yb10 68-69; jv 435
Nxumalo, Zeblon and Nomusa: yb07 126-128; g93 5/8 9-10
Nyamussua, Moses: yb07 121-122; g93 5/8 9
Pandachuk, Ernest: yb07 98
Phillips, George R.: lfs article 10; yb07 83, 86-89, 95, 98, 108; g99 10/22 20; jv 298; w90 2/1 27
Piliso, Loyiso: yb07 156
Radebe, Abednego: yb07 80-81
Rautenbach, Jakob: yb07 138
Rossouw family: yb07 145-147
Scott, Edwin: jv 427
Sedibe, Zechariah: yb07 137
Seegers, Corrie: yb07 151-152
Skosana, Thomas: yb07 96-97
Smit, Fanie and Elaine: yb07 139
Smit, Paul: yb07 78
Smith, Frank W.: jv 435
Smith, Gray: jv 435
Stephens, Ron: yb07 105
Steynberg, Maureen: yb07 105
Taylor, David and Grace: yb07 79, 82
Theron, Japie: yb07 76-77
Thompson, Mary Ellen: w06 9/1 8
Thongoana, Joshua: w93 2/1 25-29
Tshange, Johannes: yb07 75
Tshehla, Isaac: yb07 158-159
van Diemen, Adam: yb07 79
Venter, Christiaan: yb07 82-83
Venter, Stephen: yb07 118
Walder, Thomas: yb07 83
Wentzel, Piet J. and Lina: yb07 90-91, 156; g01 8/22 12; w93 4/1 20-21; w86 7/1 9-13
Wiggill, Keith: yb07 111
Williams, Cliff: yb07 118
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: yb07 76-77, 124
special pioneers: lfs article 10; w21.07 27-28
spina bifida and other illness: w13 8/15 9
places:
Aliwal North: lfs article 10
Cape Town: yb07 77, 83-85, 98, 124, 151
Durban: yb07 74-77, 98, 174; g01 9/22 26-27
Harrismith: lfs article 10
Johannesburg: yb07 76, 90, 92-93, 123, 128-130, 133, 137, 150, 154
KwaZulu-Natal: yb07 80-81, 92-94, 121-122, 139, 142-143, 165
Limpopo Province: yb07 78, 151-152
Nigel: lfs article 10
Parkhurst: lfs article 10
Pretoria: lfs article 10
Roodepoort: lfs article 10
Tokoza: yb95 22
Venda: w99 5/1 26-27
printing: w21.07 28-29; yb09 28-29; w08 11/1 14-15; w07 1/15 13; yb07 83-85, 87, 105, 124-125, 135, 150; yb05 25; jv 391, 583, 590-592, 594; w87 12/15 28-29
typesetting: w21.07 26; yb07 135; jv 581
Bible New World Translation in African tongues: yb09 28; w07 1/15 13; yb07 153
Bible New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures: yb98 49
book Children: yb07 110
booklet Heaven and Purgatory: yb07 80
booklet The Kingdom, the Hope of the World: yb07 82-83
booklet What Say the Scriptures About Hell?: yb07 78
book series Studies in the Scriptures: yb07 74-76
book The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life: yb07 108
lands shipped to: w08 11/1 14; yb07 152
languages: w08 11/1 14; jv 391
magazine Consolation: yb07 85-87, 124
magazine The Watchtower: yb07 85-87, 98-99, 105, 124
simplified distribution arrangement: yb07 152-153; yb01 19
tract Proclamation—A Challenge to World Leaders: jv 427
racial unity: w17.08 17-18, 23; yb07 129, 174; jv 282, 322; w89 7/1 10-14; w88 7/15 22; g88 6/22 8-10; w86 7/1 30; g86 1/22 21-22; g86 7/22 6-11
relief work: yb07 153; w01 1/1 16
Angola (1990-1992): jv 312; yb93 15-16
Congo, Democratic Republic of (1991-1992): yb04 234-235
Mozambique: w89 3/1 7
Zimbabwe (2002): yb07 155
Russell’s sermons in newspapers: yb07 75
service experiences: w10 6/1 16-17; w99 5/1 27; yb96 8; yb95 42-43; w94 9/15 26; yb94 42-43; g94 5/8 9; w91 1/1 30; yb88 40-41; g88 1/22 27
adoptee: w11 7/1 14-15
Bible studies started while recovering from surgery: ijwex article 23
children: w95 1/1 24
defending the truth: yb07 78-79
employer promotes Family Happiness book: g 2/07 32; yb06 51
epileptic: g 10/13 13
firm stand on funeral customs: w98 7/15 23
funeral of president’s sister: w98 7/15 22
gang member: ijwcl article 21
gangster: g 11/07 24
Hindus: w12 10/1 9-11; yb07 99, 102-104
Indian family: g01 9/22 27
letter comforts widower: yb12 57
marriage office in courthouse: yb98 12
marriages saved: g 2/07 32; yb06 51; w00 3/1 6; w99 1/1 3
murderer on death row: yb07 144-145
personal prejudices overcome: w13 6/1 5
prayer for help to return: w00 3/1 6-7
prayer to find Bible study: w00 3/1 6
Protestant pastor accepts truth: yb15 49, 51-52
religiously involved family: yb07 145-147
returns to territory after dog bite: yb08 45
rural witnessing: w91 11/15 24-27
smoker quits at last: yb04 62-63
surgeon: g 5/14 10-11
telephone witnessing: w01 12/1 8
witch doctors: w20.05 31; yb07 158-159
translation work: hdu article 10; yb13 28; yb07 131-134, 153-154; yb01 28; jv 391
traveling overseers: w21.07 27; yb07 79, 82, 91, 94-95, 98, 100-101, 126-128, 151-152; w93 4/1 21-22
visits by—
Barber, C. W.: w87 12/15 29
Henschel, M. G.: yb07 105, 128; w87 12/15 29
Herd, S.: yb07 174
Knorr, N. H.: yb07 105, 108, 128-129; w89 4/1 28
Splane, D.: yb07 174
Sydlik, D.: yb01 28
World War I: yb07 75-78
youths choose full-time ministry: w86 9/1 5
soccer star: lff lesson 35