With the addition of Sierra Leone, Africa's first floorball nation, the IFF has at least one national association on each continent of the world, with the exception of Antarctica.

Ghana's relations with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) date back to 1960 when President Nkrumah became one of Africa's first leaders to recognize the country.

This contributed to South Africa's first Test win since readmission.

In October 1999, Cronje became South Africa's highest Test run scorer during the first Test against Zimbabwe.

She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

It is the first African mobile service operator to use ForgetMeNot Africa's eTXT service to enable their customer base to send and receive email via any mobile capable of a simple SMS

South Africa's first formal relationship with an independent African country was established with Malawi, beginning in 1967.

* 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

In August 1993 at Moratuwa, Muralitharan captured 5 for 104 in South Africa's first innings, his first five-wicket haul in Tests.

One year later, President Ngouabi proclaimed the People's Republic of the Congo, Africa's first People's Republic and announced the decision of the National Revolutionary Movement to change its name to the Congolese Party of Labour ( PCT ).

Benaud struck exactly 100 in the first innings, before taking 4 / 70 in South Africa's reply.

The NCNW produced its first cookbook, The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, in 1958, and revived the practice in 1993, producing a popular series of cookbooks featuring recipes by famous African Americans, among them: The Black Family Reunion Cookbook ( 1991 ), Celebrating Our Mothers ' Kitchens: Treasured Memories and Tested Recipes ( 1994 ), and Mother Africa's Table: A Chronicle of Celebration ( 1998 ).

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

The lyrics employ the five most widely spoken of South Africa's eleven official languages-Xhosa ( first stanza, first two lines ), Zulu ( first stanza, last two lines ), Sesotho ( second stanza ), Afrikaans ( third stanza ) and English ( final stanza ).

Once in power, President Ngouabi changed the country's name to the People's Republic of the Congo, declaring it to be Africa's first Marxist-Leninist state, and founded the Congolese Workers ' Party ( Parti Congolais du Travail, PCT ) as the country's sole legal political party.

South Africa's first National Conference on Environment and Development entitled, " Ecologise Politics, Politicise Ecology " was held at the University of the Western Cape in conjunction with the Cape Town Ecology Group and the Western Cape Branch of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in 1991.

In Save the Beloved Country Paton plays on the famous title of his first novel but keeps a serious tone throughout discussing many of the famous personalities and issues on various sides of the South Africa's apartheid struggle.

In 1993, leading into South Africa's first elections of universal suffrage and the end of Apartheid, the Natal and Cape regions called for their secession from South Africa.

* Africa's Khoe-San were first to split from other humans

This region is the birthplace of many notable figures in South Africa's history, such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme ( founder of the African National Congress and the first Black lawyer in South Africa ), John Langalibalele Dube ( founding president of the ANC ), Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( founder of the IFP ), Chief Albert Luthuli ( ANC president and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ), Anton Lembede ( founding president of the ANC Youth League ), Jacob Zuma ( current President of South Africa ), and Bhambatha.

Tanzania has a varied geography, including deep and large freshwater and salt lakes, many national parks, and Africa's highest point, Mount Kilimanjaro ().

Bloemfontein (, ; Dutch for " fountain of flowers " – lit., " blooms ") is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa ; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.

Situated just south of the Botswana border, the town is connected by main roads to South Africa's national capital of Pretoria in the east and to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, in the north.

His legacy remains controversial, with some hailing him as a national and African hero, while others denounce him as a tyrant and one of the most corrupt leaders in Africa's entire history.

On the other hand, South Africa's national anthem is unique in that five of the country's eleven official languages are used in the same anthem ( the first stanza is divided between two languages, with each of the remaining three stanzas in a different language ).

The band is credited in major national press as " South Africa's most successful Gothic Rock act and one of the top bands in the far broader Alternative scene " and headlined major national festivals throughout South Africa, including the country's largest music festival Woodstock, in addition to Oppikoppi and RAMfest.

But the walls he built around his people and his attempts to boost cultural and national pride certainly contributed to the environment that bred Africa's most influential pop music.

also forms the first verse of South Africa's national anthem.

Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.

The University of the Witwatersrand houses two of South Africa's national heritage sites and two heritage objects.

The song is so popular in South African culture that it is often referred to as South Africa's second national anthem.

Prior to the Games, the States-General ( national Parliament ) of the Netherlands, as host country, adopted a motion declaring South Africa's participation " undesirable ", due to its policy of apartheid.

The king protea as South Africa's national flower was chosen for this purpose, so that the national cricket team became known as the Proteas, for example.

* Likewise, " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika " (" The Voice of South Africa ") became South Africa's only national anthem and was also translated into English to appease the relevant population.

Subsequently, South Africa's national motto,! Ke e / xarra // ke, was derived from the extinct Northern Cape ǀXam language.

The Kruger National Park remains South Africa's most iconic game reserve and is a national park.

The National Library of South Africa's core national library functions are described in Section 4 subsection 1 of the National Library Act, No 92 of 1998, and cover the following broad areas:

D ' Oliveira captained South Africa's national non-white cricket team, and also played football for the non-white national side.

A farewell for D ' Oliveira was written on the last 2011 issue of Time magazine by Trevor Manuel, South Africa's minister in the Presidency for national planning.

This tendency was a legacy of the Congress Youth League led by Muziwakhe Lembede, the Unity Movement of South Africa and the Mangaliso Sobulkhwe-led Pan-Africanist Congress that linked continental and global working class struggle with South Africa's national oppression of Black people.

The park is home to Africa's Big Five Game: Elephant, Rhinoceros ( Black / Hook-lipped and White / Square-lipped ), Cape Buffalo, Lion, Leopard.

It was Africa's first national park.

The park covers an area of 117. 21 square kilometres ( 28, 963 acres ) and is small in comparison to most of Africa's national parks.

His efforts enabled the park to survive its formative years and grow into one of Africa's finest parks.

The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa's seven major vegetation zones ( biomes ), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa's " Big 7 " ( elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark ) in their natural habitat.

On 12 May 2000, President Festus Mogae of Botswana and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa formally launched Southern Africa's first peace park, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.