Question: Are Ruta and Fenestraria both native African plants?

Context articles: Ruta
Commelina acutispatha
Cynosurus
Auguste Chevalier
African art
Military history of Ethiopia
Gaston Thornicroft
Fenestraria
Arctotis venusta
Second Boer War

Ruta (commonly known as rue) is a genus of strongly scented evergreen subshrubs, 20–60 cm tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia and southwest Asia.
 There are perhaps 8 to 40 species in the genus.
 The most well-known species is "Ruta graveolens" (rue or common rue).
Commelina acutispatha is an herbaceous plant in the dayflower family found primarily in East and Central Africa, including limited distribution in the African Great Lakes country of Uganda.
 In addition to that country, it is known from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 It is a common species in regions of West Africa with significant forest cover, where it is often weedy.
 It is most common in disturbed, moist soils, in which it scrambles over other plants.
 The name "Commelina thomasii" was often used for West African plants until it was realized that "Commelina acutispatha", an older name originally applied to plants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was the same species.
 The petals range in color from white to pale lilac to violet; the lower petal is about half as large as the upper paired petals.
 The central anther is reported to have a blue patch on the connective.
 It has solitary spathes borne on a peduncle covered in hook-hairs.
Cynosurus is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family.
 Plants in this genus are known generally as dogstail grass.
 They are native to the Mediterranean Basin and neighboring regions, but some have been introduced into Australia as well as North and South America.
Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873 in Domfront – June 1956 in Paris) was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire in Africa that included Côte d'Ivoire.
 He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia.
 Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods, grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent.
 Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of the Sahara.
African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent.
 The definition may also include the art of the native African, African diasporas, such as African American, Caribbean and other American art.
 Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.
The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC.
 Ethiopia has been involved many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was the only native African nation which remained independent after the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army.
 19th and 20th century Ethiopian Military history is characterized by conflicts between Ethiopia and Italy, which repeatedly attempted to annex the mineral rich nation, and unite its East African holdings.
Gaston Thomas Thornicroft was a leader of the Coloured (mixed-race) community in Southern Rhodesia from the 1930s to the 1960s.
 His father was Harry Scott Thornicroft, a British colonial administrator, who married a native African woman.
 Gaston was president of two groups advocating rights for Coloureds: the Coloured Community Service League from 1933, and the Rhodesia National Association from 1952 till it was eclipsed in the early 1960s by more radical black unity groups.
 He led talks to unite competing Coloured representative associations.
 Initially he emphasised the Coloured community's separateness from and superiority to black Africans; but later was sympathetic to the non-white unity movement, without ever formally joining it.
 He was a businessman, running 18 stores by 1945.
 In the 1953 general election in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, one seat was reserved for a European representing African interests; Thornicroft applied to stand but was refused as not being European.
 He represented "Coloured & Eurafrican Communities" at the 1961 Southern Rhodesia constitutional talks.
 He ran unsuccessfully in the 1962 and 1970 general elections in (Southern) Rhodesia.
Fenestraria (known as babies' toes or window plant) is a (possibly monotypic) genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to the Namaqualand in Namibia.
Arctotis venusta is a species of South African plants in the daisy family.
 Common names include silver arctotis, kusgousblom, and blue-eyed African daisy.
 It is native to the western coast of South Africa, The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental, and has become naturalized in parts of the United States (California, Arizona, South Carolina), Australia, and Central and South America, where it has escaped from gardens to become a noxious weed.
The Second Boer War (Dutch: "Tweede Boerenoorlog" , Afrikaans: "Tweede Vryheidsoorlog" , "Second Freedom War"), known variously as the Boer War, Anglo-Boer War, South African War or Anglo-Boer South African War, started on 11 October 1899 and ended on 31 May 1902.
 Britain defeated two Boer states in South Africa: the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.
 Britain was aided by its Cape Colony, the Colony of Natal and some native African allies.
 The British war effort was further supported by volunteers from the British Empire, including Southern Africa, the Australian colonies, Canada, India and New Zealand.
 Inside Britain and its Empire there also was significant opposition to the Second Boer War.