User:Zaian

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I'm Zaian, and I'm not sure that I need a user page, but here's one anyway. Hello. Zaian apparently refers to the Zai mountains in Morocco. A Zaian is a Berber nomad or a breed of sheep. That's not remotely why I chose the name.

Contents 1 Main contributions 2 Did you know? featured articles 3 Gallery 3.1 South Africa 3.2 England 3.3 Scotland 3.4 New Zealand 3.5 Elsewhere 4 Nice stuff

Main contributions

I've generally contributed to articles on South Africa's recent political history, Scouting, and a few other diverse topics.

• Apartheid
• Beaches of Cape Town
• Beaufort West
• Bisho massacre
• Brownsea Island Scout camp
• Cape Town
• Church Street bombing
• Chris Hani
• CODESA
• Devil's Peak
• Electronic funds transfer
• Fynbos
• ISO 8583
• John Perlman
• Mafeking Cadet Corps
• Nelson Mandela
• PAGAD
• Robey Leibbrandt
• Rhodes Memorial
• Rondebosch
• South African Scout Association
• St James Church Massacre
• Table Mountain

Did you know? featured articles

I wrote these articles which featured as Did you know? articles on the Main Page:

• Bisho massacre - featured on 23 February 2007
• John Perlman - featured on 5 February 2007
• Fly-whisk - featured on 21 November 2006 (no, I can't really explain why I ended up putting together an article about that!)
• Brownsea Island Scout camp - featured on 12 July 2006
• Mafeking Cadet Corps - featured on 11 May 2006

Gallery

Some photos I've taken and uploaded to Wikipedia (all now public domain).

South Africa

England

Scotland

New Zealand

Elsewhere

Nice stuff

	For Zaian for all of his great work on South African related topics and history in particular, I, Banes, award this Original Barnstar. Keep up the good work! Banez 20:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)		Scouting Barnstar: A hearty thank you for your steadfast, tireless, and quality contributions to Scouting articles. Rlevse 01:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
	For your extensive work in articles pertaining to South Africa, I, Elf-friend, hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit. Congratulations! Elf-friend 09:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC)		Zaian is presented this Africa Award for his excellent contributions to Africa related articles. Presented by Ezeu from the Africa-related regional notice board. 08:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)