English has been spoken in South Africa for more than 200 years, at least since the British military seized the Cape of Good Hope settlement from the Dutch in 1795 to keep the Cape out of the hands of revolutionary France, then a Dutch ally....
On July 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech titled "Keeping Abreast of the Trend of the Times to Achieve Common Development" at the BRICS Business Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cartoons Commentary on Xi's Middle East and Africa Tour⑤: Leading China-South Africa ties to...
There has also been a global drive to adopt plain language in law with the recommendations of law reform commissions being adopted. Now, for example, statute law in New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, and South Africa is purposefully written in plain l...
Confucius Institute serves as a "rainbow bridge" connecting the hearts of the two peoples of China and South Africa, said visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong here on Wednesday. China has sufficient reasons to enhance capability to safeguard overseas interests: FM Visiting Chinese Foreign Ministe...
In the English translation, special care has been taken to use civil law English, as it is used in Quebec, Scotland, South Africa and Louisiana. It was felt that using civil law terminology will put the common law reader on guard against creating "false friends" between civil law ...
speech Català* 1 12 about prep əˈbaʊt sobre relating to a particular subject or person We learn about some interesting people in history lessons. 1 12 about adv əˈbaʊt uns used before a number or amount to mean Ive got about thirty pounds in the bank. approximately 1 ...
Scandinavian and French invaders settled in England and created a common language for communication. Today it is the official language of the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and Ireland as well as many islands in the Caribbean . Many other countries and ...
What the anglophone countries have in common is that English is spoken in a highly multilingual setting, in which it enjoys an important status as an official or national language and functions as the language of government, law, business and commerce, education and media. However, not only ...
by its desire to be present globally while keeping its main decision-making centre in Geneva, but also through the relocation of some of its services abroad for financial reasons, the ICRC corresponds, in a sense, to the common defi- nition of the multinational, although, again, its ...
English law is in force not only in England, Wales, and Ireland but also in most of the British colonies. Quebec, Ceylon, Mauritius, South Africa, and some few of the West Indian islands follow the Roman law. The rest, including Australia, New Zealand, and all Canada except Quebec, foll...