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.

In South Africa's next Test series against Sri Lanka Cronje scored his second Test century, 122 in the second Test in Colombo ; the victory margin of an innings and 208 runs is a South African record.

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.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.

She worked as a domestic, first in Newport for a year, and then in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for another year.

* In 1922, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the first to cross the South Atlantic in an airship.

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

The first governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh, clashed frequently with others, in particular with the Resident Commissioner, James Hurtle Fisher.

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

* 1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.

Ælle (; also Aelle or Ella ) is recorded in early sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.

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

In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

In South Asia, it appears to have developed into a fully-fledged money market instrument, which was only gradually replaced by the instruments of the formal banking system in the first half of the 20th century.

While no formal peace treaty exists between North and South Korea, both diplomatic discussions and clashes have occurred between the two.

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 ).

Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in New South Wales.

Before the 1890s when there was no formal party system in South Australia, MPs tended to have historical liberal or conservative beliefs.

Republic of China – South Korea relations date back to 4 January 1949, four months after the formal establishment of the South Korean government, when the Republic of China set up an embassy in Seoul's Myeongdong district.

However, on 23 August 1992 the Republic of China government, by then only in control of the island of Taiwan and a few minor outlying areas, severed diplomatic relations with South Korea in advance of its announcement of formal recognition of the People's Republic of China based in Beijing.

In 2007, a free trade agreement known as the Republic of Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement ( KORUS FTA ) was reportedly signed between South Korea and the United States, but its formal implementation has been repeatedly delayed, pending further approval by the legislative bodies of the two countries.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) are in a formal alliance with the ruling ANC, and thus do not stand separately for election.

The formal economy of South Africa has its beginnings in the arrival of Dutch settlers in 1652, originally sent by the Dutch East India Company to establish a provisioning station for passing ships.

* October 1 – The Owl Club of Cape Town, South Africa has its first formal meeting.

Very little formal attention was given to egg or meat production ... " Recent genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast, East, and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent.

Sudan was also included as " cleft " between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ; this division became a formal split in July 2011 following an overwhelming vote for independence by South Sudan in a January 2011 referendum.

In October 1807 Major George Johnston wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, stating that Bligh was abusive and interfering with the troops of the New South Wales Corps.

Independence Day on 21 March 1990, was attended by numerous international representatives, including the main players, the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and President of South Africa F W de Klerk, who jointly conferred formal independence on Namibia.

The government also pursued the expansion of cooperation among the nations of South Asia, bringing the process — an initiative of former President Ziaur Rahman — through its earliest, most tentative stages to the formal inauguration of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) at a summit gathering of South Asian leaders in Dhaka in December 1985.

As it became more widely known, South African apartheid was condemned internationally as unjust and racist and many decided that a formal legal framework was needed in order to apply international pressure on the South African government.

The speech, drafted by the government of David Lloyd George on recommendations from Jan Smuts Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, with the enthusiastic backing of the King, opened the door for formal contact between the British Government and the Republican administration of Éamon de Valera.

Hanja use within general Korean literature has declined significantly since the 1980s because formal hanja education in South Korea does not begin until the seventh year of schooling, due changes in government policy during the time.