Known as Kolmanskop, it sprouted as a prim German town in the Namib a century ago, when the country was a German colony known as German South West Africa.
After returning to South Africa from their German camp on 30 May, South Africa's players will have a week's rest before entering the final phase of the hosts' World Cup preparations.
Willy Brandt International Airport, south of the German capital, was originally due to go into service in June 2012 but has been plagued with problems.
Japanese, South Korean and German models now account for half the cars sold in America, for example (though many of these are built in American factories).
About a dozen representatives of U.S., Japanese, German and South African banks were at Downing Street to meet with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling, a spokesman for the Treasury said.
Both Dr. King and his father are celebrated figures in the United States, but most people do not know the connection between the two Baptist ministers from the American South and the medieval German monk whose name they bear.
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In the German-supervised south, and in the western zone where the Italians were slow to move in, it has proved impossible to stop Serb civilians fleeing in large numbers.
Commenting on the closure of the call centre in Newport, which employs 90 staff, South Wales assembly member Mike German said he was "dismayed" at the announcement, saying it was a "complete turnabout" nine months after an announcement to create 150 new jobs there.
Berlin will be torn, says Citha Maass of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, as other countries keep pushing it to do more, for instance to interpret its mandate in Afghanistan more robustly (although, contrary to some reports, nobody expects German forces to go south).
Ms. RICHARDSON: BMW was the 76th German company to come into South Carolina.
In 1940, World War II's Battle of Britain began when at least 70 German bombers attacked the docks in south Wales.
He stepped aside as Rhodri Morgan's deputy - and as economic development minister - last July, when South Wales Police began investigating allegations involving Mr German's previous role as head of the European Unit of the Welsh exam board, the WJEC.
The South Korean firm had sought an injunction in a German court arguing Apple's VoiceOver screen-access facility infringed one of its patents.
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The 2008 champion made a clean pass on Massa later in the race and finished fifth, which means he now heads to next week's race in South Korea looking for his first podium since the German Grand Prix.
Large parts of the eastern economy have become so addicted to subsidies that he fears they may become a German version of Italy's poor south, the Mezzogiorno, whose economy depends on handouts from Rome and Brussels, and has been plagued by low growth.
He withdrew to a house in the south to write art history, dismissed anti-German activists with lectures about realism (not a quality that loomed large during any other period of his life) and maintained friendly relations with a ferocious collaborationist, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.
At the same time, the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland from east, west and south.
Non-Americans have won the last five majors, two by South Africans, two by Northern Irishmen and one by a German.
Evidence for past supernovae is thin on the ground, although in 1999 German researchers found traces of iron-60 in south Pacific sediments ( Physical Review Letters, vol 83, p 18).
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High-ranking dignitaries will include UN secretary general Kofi Annan, South African President, Thabo Mbeki, Fifa chief Sepp Blatter and German legend Franz Beckenbauer.
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Dignitaries expected to attend the funeral include British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the presidents of Nigeria, South Africa and Afghanistan.
Additionally, the U.S. is a net exporter only because Japanese, German and Korean auto makers with plants in the American Midwest and South are delivering units abroad.
In June 1945, 102 died in a train crash in Assling, south of Munich, when an American troop transport train crashed into a train carrying German prisoners of war.
The South African last failed to make the cut on the European circuit at the 1999 German Masters, where he was disqualified for not completing his second round following two shots into water.
Simultaneously, the German Wehrmacht poured across the frontier of Poland from the west, north and south.
German midfielder Dietmar Hamann is still a doubt for Germany's semi-final against South Korea.
North-south divisions are hardly new in the EU. When the euro was planned in the 1990s many German politicians wanted a currency zone comprising only Germany, the Benelux countries and France.
Just 27 years before South Africa's Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu - 80 last week - was born, a German army commander was issuing orders, in writing, to exterminate Namibians, drive them into the desert and poison the wells.
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