[1] The bond formed around their respective internal conflicts that were repeatedly neglected by the United Nations Security Council.

[2] In 1961, with a fake Ethiopian passport, Nelson Mandela traveled to Algeria where he was trained by the armed forces of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN).

[3][4] In November 1964, the University of Algiers conferred an honorary Doctorate of Literature to South African activist Albert Lutuli.

[5] In 1974, in support to the anti-apartheid movement, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika successfully lobbied for the expulsion of the South Africa representation from the United Nations General Assembly that he presided that year.

[6] He successfully argued that South Africa's delegates were invalid because they represented only a white minority.