Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1912 Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco signed the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
Sources: Légifrance (Journal officiel de la République française) ; Digithèque de matériaux juridiques et politiques, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia
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Unknown (Life time: Unknown), Public Domain, Wikipedia 1960 Philip Kgosana led a march of 30,000 anti-pass law protesters from Langa and Nyanga to Cape Town's Caledon Square, in a landmark moment of resistance following the Sharpeville massacre.
Sources: South African History Online ; National Museum Publications (Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History)
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CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2019 Pope Francis visited Morocco, meeting with King Mohammed VI and migrants.
Sources: Holy See Press Office ; Morocco World News
CultureSouth Africa held a general election, for white voters only.
Sources: South African Institute of Race Relations ; South African History Online
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PoliticsZibhebhu's Mandlakazi routed the uSuthu army at Msebe in the Zulu civil war. Laband records more than a thousand uSuthu dead against ten Mandlakazi.
Sources: South African Historical Journal ; Jonathan Ball Publishers
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