Can you pick which words are missing from these facts about the history of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe?
In 1983 ........ Banda, President for Life of Malawi, disolved parliament and had tent pins hammered into the heads of his government ministers.
Africa's largest and second oldest, after Cairo's, stock exchange was opened in 1887 in the city of .............
Salvador de Sá, Governor of Brazil, recaptured the important town of ......, from the Dutch soldiers who had held it for seven years, in 1648.
In the 13th century eight famous statues of ..... were carved from soapstone in the Shona city of Great Zimbabwe.
Christiaan ....... performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967 at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.
The Portuguese footballer Eusébio was born in Maputo, Mozambique and won the Mozambican league with C.D. Maxaquene before being sold to ........ for 350,000$.
Seretse Khama, a royal prince of Bechuanaland, was exiled for marrying Ruth Williams, a ..... english woman. He gave up his crown but was later elected president democratically.
The ...... Minister John Chilembwe decapitated the manager of the A L Bruce Plantation and displayed his head on a pole after several of his churches were burned down in 1915.
The German Empire opened Shark Island Concentration Camp in 1904 where thousands died during the ...... and Namaqua genocide.
Troops from South Africa and Botswana were deployed to ....... from September 1998 to May 1999 to restore order after riots due to alleged vote fraud.
The ......., meaning 'crushing' in Zulu, is a term for the waves of war and migration among Southern African tribes due to new crops and weapons that led to over a million deaths.
In 1981 ....... II's rule of Swaziland reached it's 82nd year, which meant he overtook Bernhard VII of Lippe as history's longest reigning monarch.
Nzinga a Nkuwu converted to Christianity in the year .... and was baptised by Portuguese missionaries as João I of Kongo.
The ilegal sale of weapons worth $633 million to MPLA during the ....... Civil War by members of the French Government resulted in thirty six individuals being convicted in 2009.
In the year .... Nongqawuse, a teenaged girl, caused widespread famine with her claim that if the Xhosa destroyed their crops and cattle then spirits would drive out the British.
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland broke up in the year .... after a conference at the Victoria Falls Hotel.
Max Theiler became the first African-born Nobel laureate in the year .... for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.
In the year ...., Joel Stransky scored a drop goal against New Zealand to win South Africa their first Rugby World Cup at Ellis Park, Johannesburg.
Queen Anna Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, in alliance with the Kingdom of ..... and the Dutch Republic, won the Battle of Kombi against Portugal in 1647.
The Kasanje Kingdom was formed in modern day Angola in 1620 by Imbangala mercenaries who had deserted from the .......... Army.
Carlos Cardoso, a Mozambican journalist, was murdered in 2002 following an investigation into corruption connected to the .............. of Mozambique's biggest bank.
The '...... Relief Bill' was passed in June 1914 in response to widespread passive resistance by South Africa's asians under the leadership of Leung Quin and Mahatma Gandhi.
In the 1180s, Sultan Suleiman Hassan of Kilwa siezed control of the vital port of ...... which let him control trade between Great Zimbabwe and India.
The '.... Settlers', the first British colonists in the Cape, included the Geologist William Atherstone and Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States.
The police killed 69 demonstrators against the '.... laws', where blacks had to carry internal passports when outside their designated homelands, at Sharpeville in 1960.
The two longest lasting Boer Republics, the Transvaal and the ...... Free State, won confirmation of complete self-government in the First Boer War.
The 10th to the 17th December 1899 was dubbed '..... Week' after the British lost three major battles, Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso, during the Second Boer War.
In 1914, during the early stages of WW1, General Manie ...... rebelled against the British and attempted to recreate the Boer Republics.
Over 1,300 British troops were killed by Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879, the Zulu reserve then attacked the Hospital at ...... Drift without success.
The first of the ............, european colonists who left British controlled areas to establish their own countries further inland, set off in 1835.
In 1693 the Portuguese attempt to conquer the .... mines of the Zimbabwe plateau was ended by Changamire Dombo and his Rozwi warriors.
Ian ....., white minority leader of Rhodesia, declared independence unilaterally in 1965 after the UK wouldn't grant it without majority rule.
The South African exclave of Walvis Bay, in modern day Namibia, was used as a base for the South African conquest and occupation of ...... South West Africa during WW1.
The restuarant Nando's, founded in 1987 in Johannesburg, sells fried chicken in a sauce made from Mozambican ........ peppers.
In 2006 South Africa cricket team scored ...–9 in reply to Australia's 434 for 4, the two first ever 400+ innings in one day international cricket.
Prime Minister Cecil ...... of the Cape Colony tripled the property franchise qualification in 1892 in order to indirectly disenfranchise the Cape's non-white voters.
The first Fifa World Cup held in Africa climaxed on the 11th July .... when Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 at Johannesburg.
13 year old Hector Pieterson was killed by police during the 'Soweto uprising' protests against the mandatory use of ......... in black schools.
From 1975 to 1991, up to 500,000 ..... troops fought in the Angolan civil war in support of the MPLA government.
South African Troops halted the Cuban advance on the Angolan town of Jamba at the Battle of ..... Cuanavale but recieved heavy casualties and withdrew from the war.
In 1886 the University of Cape Town admitted four chemistry students who became the first ever ..... to recieve western style higher education in Africa.
In 1985 P. W. Botha legalised mixed race relations and his successor, F. W. de ....., repealed public segregation in 1990 and established universal adult suffrage in 1993.
The Fifth Brigade (which answered only to Robert ...... and was equiped by Kim Il Sung) carried out a campaign of massacres against the Northern Ndebele people from 1983-87.
J. R. R. ......., the father of modern fantasy, was born to english migrant workers in the Orange Free State in 1892.
In 1975, upon independence from portugal, Angola replaced the ...... currency with the kwanza.
'The Gods Must Be Crazy', a South African comedy film about the ǃKung bushmen of the ........ Desert, became a huge hit in 1980.
Napoléon, Prince Imperial, the only child of Napoleon III of France was killed in the year .... by Zulu warriors while fighting in a british regiment.
Dutch control over the Cape Colony began in 1626 and ended after a British victory at the Battle of Blaauwberg near ......... in 1806.
Nkosi ......., a HIV-positive born child and public speaker, died at the age of 12 in 2001.
South Africa agreed to grant Namibia Independence and Cuba agreed to withdraw all forces from Angola in the Tripartite Accord, which was signed in the city of ........ in 1988.
The Church of the Vow was built in ................ in 1841 as payment for God giving the Boers victory against the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
The 'Free Republic of ........' was founded in central Namibia in 1872 by the mixed-race Baster people.
The ...... Accord, named after the city in Zambia where it was signed, granted Mozambique independence from Portugal after a nine year war.
The city of Salisbury was founded in 1890 and named after the Marquess of Salisbury who was then British Prime Minister. It was renamed ...... in 1982.
The use of boy cadets as messengers and lookouts by the british soldiers under siege at Mafeking during the Second Boer War inspired ...... Baden-Powell to found the Boy Scouts.
Mwene Mundu Man'ulumbe led his tribe into Barotseland, Zambia in 1795 and started an annual dance festival, the ...... Mbalango Lyenya, to celebrate the crops of the new rich land.
The Griqua, a mixed race people of European and Khoikhoi heritage, migrated north west in the 19th century where they founded two states, Griqualand .... and Griqualand West.
Shaka and his .... warriors destroyed the Ndwandwe nation in 1820 after victories at Gqokli Hill and the Mhlatuze River, which proved the strength of his army reforms.
The Caprivi Strip is a narrow protusion of Namibia established to give Germany access to the ....... River. It's Lozi majority population attempted to secede between 1994 and 1999.
Traditional ..... culture discourages monogamous relationships, their king Mswati III has 15 wives, and as a result 26.5% of their population has HIV/AIDS.
The great city of .......-Kongo, capital of the Kingdom of Kongo, was destroyed during the 40 year civil war that began after the Portuguese killed António I.
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 formally designated all black South Africans as citizens of autonomous .......... and not of South Africa.
The No. 1 ....... Detective Agency, a BBC/HBO TV Series, was set, and filmed, in Botswana and based on books written by Alexander McCall Smith, who was born in Zimbabwe.
Trevor Noah, a South African comedian, became the new host of the US TV series 'The ..... Show' in 2015.
Oscar ........., a South African sprint runner later convicted of murder, became the first amputee to win an able-bodied world track medal in 2011.
In the 2000 Olympics at ......, Mozambican Athlete Maria Mutola won the gold medal in the 800 meters middle-distance running event.
At his trial in 1964, defendent Nelson Mandela gave a speech about his wishes for an equal society which ended 'it is an ..... for which I am prepared to die'.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu described South Africa in 1994 as a '....... nation'.
In 1704 Beatriz Kimpa Vita, an Angolan Christian, recieved visions of St. ....... of Padua in which she was told to create a new christian creed known as Antonianism.
Afonso I of Kongo wrote numerous letters to John III of Portugal imploring the Portuguese to let him regulate the ..... trade that was destroying his country.
Jan ..... was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1919-24 and from 1939-48 and so was the only man to sign both of the peace treaties ending the First and Second World Wars.
The Jameson Raid was a failed 1895 attempt by the Cape Colony to trigger an uprising of British migrant workers or .......... at the gold mines in the Transvaal Republic.
Piet Retief and about 500 of his Boers were killed by ......., King of the Zulu, during a land sale negotiation.
Cyclone Leon–Eline hit Southern Africa in February 2000 causing widespread ........ and killing hundreds.
Political prisoners, such as Nelson Mandela, Mosiuoa Lekota, Jacob Zuma & John ya Otto Nankudh, were imprisoned in the maximum security prison on ...... Island.
44 striking ...... were killed by South African police in 2012.
In 1857, Robert Moffat translated the Bible into Setswana for the benefit of Sechele I, a Kwêna ruler David ........... had converted to Christianity.
Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film ....... in 2003.
In 1999 Mpule Kwelagobe, a Botswanan model, was crowned Miss Universe. A year later she was made ........ Ambassador by the United Nations.
25 players and coaches of the Zambian national football team died in the year .... when their plane crashed into the ocean outside Gabon.
In 2009, after hyperinflation of 79.6 billion percent, the government stopped printing the .......... dollar and asked people to instead use foreign currency.
In 1888, during the South African Diamond Rush, two rival mining companies joined to form the ...... company which would gain a monopoly over the Diamond Trade.
In 1965 Gary Player, the South African Golfer, won the U.S. Open which made him the first, and so far only, non ........ to have won all 4 Majors.
In 1910, the British colony of Southern ........ voted against joining the Union of South Africa.
Mulalo ......, a South African Engineer, invented an environmental-friendly construction material called Cenocell in 2011.
In 1966 South Africa refused to recognise a United Nations resolution stating it no longer had a mandate over ....... and so Sam Nujoma authorised armed resistance.
.... forces killed thousands of UNITA supporters in the 'Halloween Massacre' after arguments over the fairness of the 1992 Election.
After a slump in copper prices meant Zambia rapidly fell into massive debt, President ....... Kaunda canceled subsidies on food and fertiliser which led to shortages and riots.
In 1823, ........., a Zulu soldier, quarreled with his king, Shaka, and went into exile where he established his own Kingdom of Matabele in modern day Zimbabwe.
The 1880-81 ... War in Basutoland, present day Lesotho, was a successful uprising by Basotho chiefs against a British attempt to ban them from owning weapons.
The 1973 albun 'Amabutho' was the first record by South African band '......... Black Mambazo'.
In 1939 Solomon Linda, a Zulu musician, composed the song '.....' which became known as 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' when covered by English speaking artists.
In 2015, 23 years after the end of the Mozambican Civil War, the HALO Trust charity announced the last of the country's .......... had been found and detonated.
Moshoeshoe I's stronghold at Thaba Bosiu was the only fortress in .......... to never be taken in 30 years of wars with the Boers, the British and the Tlôkwa.
In 1571 Negomo Chirisamhuru, the Mwari worshipping shona King of Mutapa, refused a Portuguese demand that all ....... were to be expelled from his kingdom.
Portugal was forced to give up it's claims to Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe after complying to the '1890 ....... Ultimatum' under threat of war.
The ..... expansion is a term for the spread of a family of Niger–Congo languages throughout Southern Africa in the BC era.
Malagasy slaves took control of the ..... ship Meermin in 1766 and ordered the crew to take them back to Madagascar. They were instead taken to the Cape where they were captured.
King Faku of Mpondo banned the Ulwaluko circumcision and initiation rites in the 1820s after several of his .... died undergoing them.
Emily Hobhouse, the British welfare campaigner, reported in 1901 of the conditions in the concentration camps the British had set up to hold .... civilians in which 26,000 died.
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