Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes called Homo ergaster) are the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human-like body proportions with relatively elongated legs and shorter arms compared to the size of the torso.n 1894, Dubois named the species Pithecanthropus erectus, or âerect ape-man.â At that time, Pithecanthropus (later changed to Homo) erectus was the most primitive and smallest-brained of all known early human species; no early human fossils had even been discovered in Africa yet. Height:
Nonetheless, Mozambique succeeded in achieving independence on June 25, 1975, after the coup d'etat Ã©tat In portugal known as The Carnation, revolution thus ending 470 years Of portuguese colonial rule in The East african. regionan hunter and gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisani peoples, were the first known inhabitants of the region that is now Mozambique, followed in the 1st and 4th centuries by Bantu-speaking peoples who migrated there across the Zambezi River. In 1498, Portuguese explorers landed on the Mozambican coastline.
   The Republic of South Africa as it is today did not â¦ gain  independence fully at a single point in history. Rather, it went  through a series of transitions. It first gained partial  independence from Britain on 31 May 1910.outh Africa, as one country, was called the Union of South Africa in 1911. It was self-governing, British colony. In 1939 the National Party, supported mainly by the Afrikaners (Boers), won the national elections and started a process of moving away from British rule.