On this day — September 13 in African history

Byzantine general Belisarius decisively defeated the Vandal Kingdom at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage in North Africa.

British forces defeated the Egyptian army at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, securing British control over Egypt.

Kevin Carter, the South African photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a starving child during the Sudan famine, was born in Johannesburg.

Desmond Tutu led the largest anti-apartheid march in South African history through the streets of Cape Town.

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A U.S. federal appeals court ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, who became the first African American student at the segregated university.

South Africa's apartheid government granted nominal 'independence' to the Bantustan of Venda, a designation not recognized by any country outside South Africa.

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Salva Kiir Mayardit, the former SPLA commander who became the first president of South Sudan upon its independence in 2011, was born in Akon, Bahr el Ghazal.