Mbabane

City · 1902 CE · in Sub-Saharan Africa

Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).

Lilongwe (1902 CE): Capital of Malawi (1975–today).
N'Djamena (1900 CE): Capital of Republic of Chad (1961–today).
Muscat (c. 1900 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1900–1946), Sultanate of Oman (1970–today).
Nairobi (1899 CE): Capital of Republic of Kenya (1963–today).
Lusaka (1905 CE): Capital of Zambia (1967–today).
Abidjan (1898 CE): Capital of Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (1961–1983).
Chania (c. 1898 CE): Capital of Cretan State (1898–1907).
Dodoma (1906 CE): Capital of Tanzania (1996–today).
Asmara (1897 CE): Capital of State of Eritrea (1993–today).
Port Vila (c. 1907 CE): Capital of New Hebrides (1907–1980), Vanuatu (1983–today).

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Nelson Mandela (1918 CE – 2013 CE): Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president in 1994 and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
Apartheid (1948–1994 CE): System of institutionalised racial segregation and white minority rule introduced by the National Party government of South Africa in 1948 and dismantled in the early 1990s.
Second Boer War (1899–1902 CE): War between the British Empire and the Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State; British concentration camps caused the deaths of many Boer and Black African civilians.
Livingstone’s crossing of Africa (1853–1856 CE): David Livingstone travelled from the upper Zambezi to Luanda on the Atlantic and then east to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean, sighting Victoria Falls in 1855; the crossing made him famous in Britain.
Pretoria (1855 CE): Capital of South African Republic (1856–1899), South Africa (1932–today).
Maseru (1869 CE): Capital of Lesotho (1967–today).
Battle of Isandlwana (1879 CE): Zulu army defeated a British force on 22 January 1879 at the start of the Anglo-Zulu War, one of the worst defeats of a colonial army by an African force.
Johannesburg (1886 CE): Founded in 1886 after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, the world's richest gold field; it grew into South Africa's largest city.