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Malawi

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Malawi

Malawi’s first permanently settled people were Bantu from the north, who formed villages in 1500 along the central section of the lake and westwards into what is now Zambia. By 1600 these people were trading with the Portuguese and by the 1700s their tribal cohesions seemed to be disintegrating.

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Namibia

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Namibia

Bushmen, Damara and Namaqua people have lived in Namibia since early times with significant Bantu incursions occurring from 1300 AD onwards. The first Europeans to set foot on Africa’s south-west coast were Portuguese and included Bartolomeu Dias, but they did not put down any roots. Just crosses.

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Zanzibar

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Zanzibar

Zanzibar is an archipelago consisting of two main Islands of Unguja (commonly referred to as Zanzibar Island), Pemba and about 51 other surrounding small islets....

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Ain’t no mountain high enough

The highest peak in the Drakensberg range is actually not in KwaZulu-Natal but in neighbouring Lesotho. It is called Thabana Ntlenyana, meaning “beautiful little mountain” and is 3 482 metres high. It has recently been established that Mafadi at 3451m is South Africa’s highest peak and not Injasuthi, “the satisfied dog”, as previously thought. The highest voices in the Drakensberg doubtless belong to boys of the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School, Africa’s only such school. The Champagne Valley in term-time rings out with tunes varying from African traditional to rollicking spirituals and from Requiems to Andrew Lloyd-Webber