In the 1880s, a small community of Sicilian fishermen arrived in Langebaan, on the West Coast, modernising our fishing industry, importing motorised engines, setting up a fish canning industry and developing the area by building bathing facilities for leisure, and roads for the distribution of fish.Many more of our central industries are peppered with Italian influence, and some iconic national symbols that we’ve taken as our own inventions owe their existence to early Italian immigrants. "It doesn't even make that much difference to us, as the Etruscans and early Italic tribes (Ligurians, Venets, etc.)

At least for me., which showed a celebration in North Beach, San Francisco, just after Italy had won. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree....
When "Afrikaner-American" actress Charlize Theron once said that there is no future for whites in South Africa, she received some harsh criticism by the same media which has ignored South Africa's plight for years.

Initially selling just egg pastas and ice cream cones, the company soon became a roaring success, diversifying their products and processing several thousand tons of grain every month.But these men were far ahead of their time. Fearing that he’d demolished half turns out that Martinaglia had discovered, inadvertently, the astounding Sterkfontein Caves – now one of the major fossil sites in the world and home to the skull of ‘Mrs Ples’, an advanced humanlike ape creature, discovered in 1947 by Dr Robert Broom.Italians have been part of our military history from as far back as the Battle of Bloukrans during the Great Trek. The reasons for the Greek victory against the Persians in 490 to 480/479 BC was a mixture of exceptional leadership, skilful tactics and strategy, superior weapons and soldiers, and Greek unity. The two southern Lombard provinces were largely autonomous.

Crusader Kings III is soon upon us and you can pre order it today! The enterprising prisoners transformed the barren camp into a thriving community, with 50 districts, 30 km of road, 20 theatres, 16 soccer fields, 22 dramatic societies, a large hospital, a chapel and an elementary school. The Massaliots were faithful to the Romans in all their … You must log in or register to reply here.


"Estimates of the number range between about fifty thousand and two hundred thousand adult males, so we may be talking about a population of four or five hundred thousand people altogether. The first soccer club, the ‘Italia Football Club’, was established in Cape Town in 1929 by Giovanni Perosino.

The two companies merged in 1920 to form the United Macaroni Factories Limited – not as catchy as the brand name we know today!



A. Meineke, Geographica. A very up-and-coming team is the Argentine team, which seems to be made up of mostly Northern Italian-descended players. It’s a great pity.A trickle of Italians began settling in South Africa from as early as 1689.

It's played with a ball that is like a hybrid of an American football and a soccer ball. As many as can leave the country, do leave, and they go mostly to the UK and Australia. However, I have ascertained instead that it is the Etruscans, coming from the East, who are the true founders of our European culture.

Whether we use Italo-Sudafricano or Padano-Sudafricano, they are part of the now oppressed Afrikaner population.

Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. But what we celebrate even more than their many practical contributions is the passion for food, wine, art, architecture, industry, sport and religion, and the love of life in general, that they have fostered throughout our country. ed.

"[Above: North Beach after Italy won the World Cup in 2006]This blog started a few months after the 2006 World Cup of soccer, in which the Italian team won. This tented camp was grim and the Italian prisoners were demoralised, starved and far from anything familiar.





From basic design and construction to the finer embellishments of terrazzo flooring, Carrara marble and mosaics, Italian influence pervades our architecture. It was he who broke a world record with the 59-metre-deep foundations he laid for the Umgeni Bridge – just one of the many bridges he built around the country.The Berettas are another example. They also set up a training centre where they taught mechanics, joinery, carving, physics, chemistry, painting, design and sculpture. By the victory of the Romans over the Ligurians the Massaliots got some of the Ligurian lands; and after the defeat of the Teutones by C. Marius (B.C. Historical tradition also placed them in central Italy, while the Classical writers and toponomastic affinities give them a broader… Having completed a diploma in Industrial Arts at 16, he worked in several countries before arriving in the Transvaal to make a lasting impression on the South African landscape.