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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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The Orange-Fish River Tunnel

Named not after Nemo, but after the two rivers linked by it, this 82km-long tunnel is the third-longest enclosed aqueduct in the world. It was completed in 1975 after 10 years of construction and carries up to 54 cubic metres of irrigation water per second from the Gariep Dam into the rivers of the semi-arid Eastern Cape.