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South Africa became a fully self-governing Dominion on 31 May 1910 as the Union of South Africa, comprising the Cape Colony (subsequently Cape Province), Transvaal, Orange River Colony (henceforth the Orange Free State, its old name before British annexation) and Natal.

On 31 May 1961 it became the Republic of South Africa, leaving the Commonwealth rather than face expulsion for its then white minority government's apartheid policy of racial segregation.

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