Events relating to south africa

The nearest star to earth, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri 4.22 light years away, is discovered by Robert Innes, Scottish director of the Johannesburg Observatory

The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa

The African National Congress (ANC) is formed in South Africa by renaming the South African National Native Congress

Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers

The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company

Daniel Malan becomes South Africa's prime minister after his National Party wins the general election

Daniel Malan moves swiftly to reinforce apartheid, South Africa's already existing system of racial segregation

Soweto begins to be built outside Johannesburg to segregate the city's black labour force

The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman

South African author Nadine Gordimer publishes her first novel, The Lying Days

The two Rhodesias and Nyasaland are merged in the self-governing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is formed as a guerrilla movement to end Portuguese rule

The FNLA is established, with US support, as a guerrilla group to fight for a non-communist independent Angola

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