He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.

The African National Congress ( ANC ) is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994.

National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.

An " inner circle " highway connecting all major towns and district capitals is completely paved, and the all-weather Trans-Kalahari Highway connects the country ( and, through it, South Africa's commercially dominant Gauteng Province ) to Walvis Bay in Namibia.

De Klerk is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supporting the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights.

In 1990, de Klerk gave orders to end South Africa's nuclear weapons programme ; the process of nuclear disarmament was essentially completed in 1991.

After the inauguration of Jacob Zuma as South Africa's president in May 2009 de Klerk said he is optimistic that Zuma and his government can " confound the prophets of doom ".

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

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.

However, England won the Test, and the one at Headingley, to win the series 2-1, Cronje finished the series as South Africa's top scorer with 401 runs at 66. 83.

In the ODI series he was South Africa's top scorer and took 11 wickets at 14. 72 as South Africa won 6-1.

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

It ended South Africa's 14 game unbeaten streak in Test cricket.

In August 2006, an inquest into the plane crash was opened by South Africa's High Court.

Herman Charles Bosman ( 3 February 1905 – 14 October 1951 ) is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer.

The Kalahari has a number of game reserves — Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa's largest private game reserve, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve ( the world's second largest protected area ), Khutse Game Reserve and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

The LHWP is designed to capture, store, and transfer water from the Orange River system and send it to South Africa's Free State and greater Johannesburg area, which features a large concentration of South African industry, population and agriculture.

South Viet Nam's rice surplus for next year -- more than 300,000 tons -- may have been destroyed.

The next major addition was the White Wing 1882 – 1884 added behind the eastern end of the South Front, the architect being Sir John Taylor.

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive next to Harold Washington Park on the South Side ( Chicago ) | South Side

The Index assigns 53 countries to the next category, Flawed democracy: Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mali, India, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia

The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

One plan even involved building a " Sports Megaplex " in South Boston, where a new Fenway would be located next to a new stadium for the New England Patriots.

On 16 January 1996, Premier Bob Carr announced that the next Governor would be Gordon Samuels, that he would not live or work at Government House and that he would retain his appointment as Chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.

In the next match against South Australia, he made 48, took 4 / 93 and 1 / 29 and suffered three dropped catches by the wicketkeeper in successive balls.

Benaud scored his maiden first-class century, 117 against South Australia, in the next match, two years after falling short of the milestone by seven runs.

For the next 20 years, many could find only low-paid work with the island government and the only available employment overseas for the islanders was restricted to the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island, a period during which the island was often referred to as the “ South Atlantic Alcatraz ”.

The city is hoping to get Battery Park North and South open in the next two days.

Robby Jackson thus campaigns to become the first African American president, but is assassinated on a trip to the South, which enables Ed Kealty to become the next President.

In the next general election in 1868, the South Lancashire constituency had been broken-up by the Second Reform Act into two: South East Lancashire and South West Lancashire.

Having scored 5 and 38 for the South Wales club in his first match at The Oval, Grace was outstanding in the next match and scored 170 and 56 not out against the Gentlemen of Sussex at the Royal Brunswick Ground in Hove.

During the next decade, it actively supported movements such as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) under the independence war and under the subsequent civil war, the Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ) and in Southern Rhodesia, the African National Congress ( ANC ) in their struggle against apartheid in South African Republic, and the South-West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) in their struggle for independence for Namibia.

With incumbent President George Washington having refused a third term in office, incumbent Vice President John Adams from Massachusetts became a candidate for the presidency on the Federalist Party ticket with former Governor Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina as the next most popular Federalist.

The next Special Olympics World Winter Games will be in Pyeongchang, South Korea from January 29 to February 5, 2013 ..

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During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

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

Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.

The issue was resolved after the first Test of the series against the touring South African team.

After a one day series against South Africa, he scored his first Test century against the visiting Pakistanis in the first Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados which the West Indies eventually won.

* Lara holds the world record of scoring most runs in a single over ( 28 runs against left-arm spinner RJ Peterson of South Africa ) in Test cricket.

A Test match is also often held in South Africa starting on Boxing Day.

South Africa was admitted to Test status in 1889.

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa.

After the World Cup Cronje was part of the tour to the West Indies ; he featured in the three ODI's and in the Test match at Bridgetown that followed he made his Test debut, this was South Africa first Test since readmission and they came close to beating a strong West Indian side, going into the final day at 122 / 2 chasing 200 they collapsed to 148.

South Africa lost the first Test in Johannesburg but before the second test the two teams plus Pakistan and Sri Lanka competed for the Mandela Trophy, New Zealand failed to gain a win in the six match round robin stage while South Africa beat Pakistan in the final.

In October 1995, South Africa won a one-off Test with Zimbabwe.

South Africa won the five Test series against England 1-0 despite Cronje struggling, scoring 113 runs at 18. 83.