According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

The Lions won the third Test 28 – 9 at Ellis Park, and the series finished 2 – 1 to South Africa.

Among all Christians, 37. 5 % live in the Americas, 25. 7 % live in Europe, 22. 5 % live in Africa, 13. 1 % live in Asia, 1. 2 % live in Oceania and 0. 9 % live in the Middle East.

The amounts to be sold comprise approximately 44 tons from Botswana, 9 tons from Namibia, 51 tons from South Africa, and 4 tons from Zimbabwe.

During the Atlantic Slave Trade, 9. 4 to 12 million people from North, West, West-Central and South-east Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Western Hemisphere as slaves.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

Côte d ' Ivoire 15. 5 %, France 9 %, Belgium 6. 1 %, the People's Republic of China 6 %, South Africa ( 2004 )

The formal sector employment consist of mainly the female workers in the apparel sector, the male migrant labor, primarily miners in South Africa for 3 to 9 months and employment in the Government of Lesotho ( GOL ).

Liberia is a large Sub-Saharan nation in West Africa located at 6 ° N, 9 ° W.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

This compares very favourably with other sub-Saharan African countries and is largely due to sustained progress in economic conditions ; between 1977 and 2008, growth averaged 4. 6 % compared with a 2. 9 % average in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mauritius has attracted more than 9, 000 offshore entities, many aimed at commerce in India and South Africa, and investment in the banking sector alone has reached over $ 1 billion.

As of 2008, the deepest mine in the world is TauTona in Carletonville, South Africa at 3. 9 kilometers, replacing the neighboring Savuka Mine in the North West Province of South Africa at 3, 774 meters .< ref name =" TauTonaPlans ">

Japan 22. 4 %, Metropolitan France 15. 2 %, China 14. 2 %, Taiwan 13. 2 %, other European countries 20. 5 %, Oceania 5. 9 %, Africa 4. 8 %, Americas 2. 7 %, other Asian countries 1. 1 % ( 2007 )

In 2011 Thure E. Cerling of the University of Utah and colleagues, published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of their work with the carbon in the enamel of 24 teeth from 22 Paranthropus individuals who lived in East Africa between 1. 4 million and 1. 9 million years ago.

As for Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2007, Swiss archeologists discovered pieces of the oldest pottery in Africa in Central Mali, dating back to at least 9, 500 BCE.

Robben Island () is an island in Table Bay, 6. 9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.

In South Africa, a movie titled District 9 came out in 2009, an apartheid allegory featuring extraterrestrial life forms, produced by Peter Jackson.

Both at official exchange rates and at purchasing power parity ( PPP ), Seychelles remains the richest territory in Africa in terms of GDP per capita ( US $ 9, 440. 095 at real exchange rates and US $ 17, 560. 062 at PPP 2008 estimate ),

At independence, Equatorial Guinea had one of the highest per capita incomes in Africa ( 332 USD ).

1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 332 – 337.

In the third ODI in 2005 – 06 in Christchurch, New Zealand successfully chased Australia's total of 332, setting a new record for the highest run chase in ODI history ; this record was surpassed by South Africa later in the 2005 – 06 season.

The town features the highest railway station in South Africa at 2, 077 m above sea level as well as at the foot of De Berg, the highest point in the province at 2, 332 m high.

To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.

* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The Asterales order probably originated in the Cretaceous ( 145 – 65 Mya ) on the supercontinent Gondwana which broke up from 184 – 80 Mya, forming the area that is now Australia, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica.

* Freedom Day ( South Africa ) – April 27

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

West Indies defeated England twice in the mid-1960s and South Africa, in two series before they were banned for apartheid, completely outplayed Australia 3 – 1 and 4 – 0.

* 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

* Afonso I of Kongo ( c. 1456 – 1542 or 1543 ), king of Kingdom of Kongo in west central Africa

For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

* 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.

* 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.

* 1991 – The Greek cruise ship sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.

* 1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 – 2 draw in South Africa.