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| 1905 |
| | | Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising | |
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| 1906 |
| | | An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War | |
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| 1908 |
| | | International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony | |
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| 1909 |
| | | National delegates from the four provincial parliaments draw up a draft constitution for a South African union | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Mineral discoveries on the border of Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo give the first hint of the riches of the Copper Belt | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion within the British empire | |
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