We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to fly to collect his honor.

Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

* Austin Stevens ( born 1950 ), South African photographer

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops.

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

* Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a South African military aircraft manufacturer, formerly known as Atlas Aviation

** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force

** Atlas Carver, a South African military jet development project that was cancelled in the 1990s

* 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer

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

* 1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Togo, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Angola, Comoros, Mauritius, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British colony on the east coast of Australia, by Lord Sydney, the Home Secretary.

During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

He also added its captain, Nuno da Silva, a man with considerable experience navigating in South American waters.

Wessel Johannes " Hansie " Cronje ( 25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002 ) was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s.

Between the second and third tests, the one-day tournament continued, now with Cronje as captain, South Africa made the final series but lost it 2-1 to Australia.

He became South Africa's second youngest Test captain, after Murray Bisset in 1898-99, when he led the team for the third test at Adelaide but it was an unsuccessful start to his captaincy career as the series was squared.

This changed the momentum as South Africa secured wins in Durban and Cape Town, where Cronje scored his fourth test century, he was the first captain since W. G. Grace to win a three-match rubber after being one down.

South Africa won the series with England in the fourth Test at Cape Town, Cronje's fiftieth as captain.

He holds the South African record for matches won as captain, and his record of captaining his side in 138 matches stands bettered only by Graeme Smith's 149 matches as ODI captain.

In the movie Invictus, Mandela gives the captain of the national South African rugby team the poem to inspire him to lead his team to a Rugby World Cup win, telling him how it inspired him in prison.

Nielson, captain ) was carrying a cargo of coal from Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco when it wrecked on Jarvis ' southern shore.

In 1925, Australian Jack Scott first bowled a form of bodyline in a state match for New South Wales, but his captain Herbie Collins disliked it and would not let him use it again when he was captain.

Victoria won the toss but New South Wales captain George Gilbert successfully argued that the visiting team should decide who bats first.

The Australians elected Dave Gregory from New South Wales as Australia ’ s first ever captain and on winning the toss he decided to bat.

* January 24 – Dutch captain Willem Schouten rounds the southern tip of South America and names it Kaap Hoorn, after his birthplace in the Netherlands.

* June 2 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s .( b. 1969 )

Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar and Grant L. Roberts as Ruben Kruger.

The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.

Towards the end of his career Azharuddin was accused of match-fixing ; South African captain Hansie Cronje, in his confession for match-fixing, had indicated that Azharuddin was the one to introduce him to the bookies.

Mark Anthony Taylor, ( born 27 October 1964 in Leeton, New South Wales ; nicknamed " Tubby " or " Tubs ") is a former Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988 – 1999, as well as captain from 1994 – 1999, succeeding Allan Border.