Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just like old times in South Africa: Tens of thousands of unionized workers marching through the streets of Pretoria under the wary eye of police in armored vehicles, waving their fists and chanting their defiance in the face of an unyielding regime. This time, however, the ruling party is the African National Congress, which those same workers helped bring to power ?- and the protest signifies the end of the post-apartheid honeymoon between socialist-inclined big labor and their market-oriented allies in government. After seven months of bitter negotiations, the two sides have failed to agree on a wage...
...COMMENT] Discovered by Robert Broom in 1938, it is found only in southern Africa and is not a direct human ancestor...
...COMMENT] May be an early form of H. erectus found only in Africa; its designation as a separate species is debated...
...COMMENT] Discovered in 1891, it may have been the first hominid to use fire and the first to migrate out of Africa...
Earliest known fossils date to about 100,000 years ago. Other fossils from Africa that are between about 1 million and 100,000 years old probably include ancestors of modern humans