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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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A lot of bricks and pipes

Pietermaritzburg (not Durban) is the provincial capital of KwaZulu-Natal, an honour it shared until recently with Ulundi, the once-capital of the former KwaZulu apartheid Bantustan. When the Inkatha Freedom Party lost control of the provincial legislature in 2004, Ulundi lost its capital status. Pietermaritzburg’s City Hall was built in 1893, destroyed in a fire in 1895 and then, with great dedication, rebuilt in 1901. It is an exemplary piece of Victorian architecture, sporting an impressive 47m bell tower, and is the largest red-brick building in the southern hemisphere as well as home to its largest pipe organ. Now you know.