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3 unusual facts about Southern Africa


Geography of Namibia

The Namibian landscape consists generally of five geographical areas, each with characteristic abiotic conditions and vegetation with some variation within and overlap between them: the Central Plateau, the Namib Desert, the Great Escarpment, the Bushveld, and the Kalahari Desert.

Lusaka–Livingstone road

The Lusaka–Livingstone Road or Livingstone Road is the main highway of the Southern Province of Zambia from the capital, Lusaka, to the principal tourist destination, Livingstone, Southern Africa.

Van Reenen

It is located on the N3 national road at the top of Van Reenen's Pass on the Great Escarpment of the Drakensberg.


Africa Addio

Roger Ebert, in his review of the film, cited several scenes that he found suspect, including one showing white Boers leaving Kenya in cattle-drawn wagons to return to Southern Africa.

Aloe dichotoma

Aloe dichotoma, also known as quiver tree or kokerboom, is a species of aloe indigenous to Southern Africa, specifically in the Northern Cape region of South Africa, and parts of Southern Namibia.

CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1883

M83 "Sir Hercules", after Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, who had succeeded Sir Henry Bartle Frere as High Commissioner for Southern Africa in 1880 and after whom two towns in South Africa were also named.

Cristina de Middel

De Middel self-published The Afronauts in 2012, a photobook about the short-lived Zambian space program in Southern Africa.

Ctenoplectrini

Dry and cool mid-Miocene climates also coincide with the divergence between Ctenoplectra bequaerti from West Africa, and Ctenoplectra terminalis from East Africa and Southern Africa, perhaps related to fragmentation of the equatorial African rainforest belt.

Drakensberg

The absence of the Great Escarpment for about 450 km (280 miles) to the north of Tzaneen (to reappear on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique in the Chimanimani Highlands), is due to a failed westerly branch of the main rift that caused Antarctica to start drifting away from Southern Africa during the break up of Gondwana about 150 million years ago.

Dunn's Lark

The species belongs to the genus Eremalauda; Stark's Lark of Southern Africa is sometimes placed in this genus as well but other authorities such as Handbook of the Birds of the World place it in Spizocorys.

Gustav Fritsch

Along with his medical studies, Fritsch was also known for his ethnographical research in southern Africa (1863–66), during which time he traveled from Cape Town through the Orange Free State, Basutoland, Natal and Bechuanaland.

Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt

She conducted pioneering research in Southern Africa (among the Venda, Tsonga, Shona, Lozi, Bushmen), Central (among the Gbaya) and Kenya (among the Maasai, Samburu, El Molo, Rendille and unidentified hominids), which led her to develop the project "Totemic Geography of Africa "(TGA).

John Neysmith

Under his direction, the Scouts Canada Brotherhood Fund raised money to buy a cow for a Street Scout group in Nairobi, and bought and installed computer systems for training Scouters in ten Southern African countries.

Witch smeller

Witch smellers, almost always women, were important and powerful people amongst the Zulu and other Bantu-speaking peoples of Southern Africa, responsible for rooting out evil witches in the area, and sometimes responsible for considerable bloodshed themselves.


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ABCH

The trading symbol for BancABC, a financial services provider in Central and Southern Africa, on the Botswana Stock Exchange and Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

Acanthoproctus diadematus

Acanthoproctus diadematus (Namibia katydid) is an armoured katydid, bush-cricket, or ground cricket endemic to the Namib Desert of southern Africa, where it lives in the tall sand dunes along the Kuiseb River in Namib-Naukluft National Park.

Agrionympha jansella

The species is named in honour of A.J.T. Janse, who revealed the presence of micropterigids in southern Africa when he collected Agrionympha pseliacma at the same locality as A. jansella (Karkloof Falls) in 1917.

Albert Low

There he was employed by the Central News Agency, a company that held the monopoly for the sale and distribution of all reading matter including books, magazines, and newspapers throughout Southern Africa, which then included South Africa, Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South West Africa.

Anna Maria Truter

Anna Maria Truter (17 August 1777 Cape Town - 15 December 1857 England) was a Cape Colony botanical artist who was married to Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet who became second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, and was author of "An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798" (London, 1801).

Arthur Stark

The completed series was meant to form part of a wider project under the editorship of William Sclater, director of the South African Museum, describing the fauna of southern Africa.

Brubru

The six northern races and the subspecies N. a. brubru of southern Africa are found in acacia and broadleaved woodland, whereas the three subspecies in a belt from northeastern Angola and northern Namibia east to Tanzania and northern Mozambique occur in Brachystegia miombo woodland.

Bruno Geddo

From 1997 to 2001 Bruno was Assistant Regional Representative (Protection) in Pretoria, South Africa with responsibility for refugee issues across southern Africa.

Cluster Publications

The Cluster, founded in 1990, is an ecumenical partnership of the Evangelical Seminary of Southern Africa, the School of Religion and Theology of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and St Joseph’s Theological Institute.

Columbia Global Centers

In addition to providing a base for Columbia’s research and academic activities in the region, the new facilities host the MDG Centre for East and Southern Africa as a flag ship program, and the regional Millennium Villages Project office in Nairobi.

Conny Czymoch

In spring 2009, she accompanied the UNHCR Council of Business Leaders to refugee camps in southern Africa, reported on it in a daily blog on the CSR site of Manpower Inc.

Dahalo language

Dahalo is one of very few outside southern Africa to have phonemic clicks (the others being Sandawe and Hadza in East Africa and Damin, a mutually unintelligible register of Lardil, spoken mainly on Mornington Island in Australia).

Danny Stannard

Danny Stannard, an Irishman who had spent most of his life in southern Africa, succeeded Ken Flower as head of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organization under Robert Mugabe and later became manager of the Zimbabwe cricket team and head of security for the Zimbabwe Cricket Union.

Disperis

Disperis is a genus of 74 species distributed in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Ryukyu Islands, China, Taiwan, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Philippines, New Guinea, and Carolines.

Dwyka

Dwyka Group, a group of sedimentary geological formations in Southern Africa

Eccopsis praecedens

It is found in western, central, eastern and southern Africa, including the islands of São Tomé, Cape Verde, Madagascar and Réunion.

Edwin Cameron

He is the general secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (www.rhodestrust.org.za) and is a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

Ena Baga

From 1957 to 1962 Baga visited southern Africa to perform for the Italian workers building the Kariba dam in Northern Rhodesia.

Etat libre d'Orange

In French, the État libre d'Orange is the name of the Orange Free State, an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

H. africana

Hydnora africana, an achlorophyllous plant native to southern Africa parasitic on the roots of members of the Euphorbiaceae

Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon

He sent administrators, such as Theophilus Shepstone and Bartle Frere, to southern Africa to implement his system of confederation.

History of Angola

The Mbunda Kingdom in Mbundaland, southeast of the now Angola endured until late nineteenth century, one of the oldest and biggest ethnic grouping in Southern Africa.

Independent Schools Association

Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa, the largest and oldest association of independent schools in Southern Africa

Jean Pellissier

* Jean Pierre Pellissier (1808–1867), missionary from the Paris Mission Society to Southern Africa

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

On 12 May 2000, President Festus Mogae of Botswana and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa formally launched Southern Africa's first peace park, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

Lithops francisci

 francisci was first sampled by Kurt Dinter in July 1922 during a research expedition to southern Africa.

LM Radio

LM Radio broadcasts on 87.8 FM in Maputo and surrounding areas including Matola, on 87.8 FM in Ponta do Ouro, on 104 FM from Maseru in Lesotho covering parts the central Free State province of South Africa and on satellite in Southern Africa and webstreaming.

McAfrika

Norwegian Church Aid and the Norwegian Red Cross, which were both conducting humanitarian operations in southern Africa at the time, said that McDonald's decision was insensitive, crass and ill-considered.

Mercenary for Justice

CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham (Luke Goss) and Black Ops organiser Anthony Chapel (Roger Guenveur Smith) hire John Seeger (Steven Seagal) and his crew for a mission in the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa.

Michael Colvin

He spoke up for the whites of southern Africa, particularly after twice visiting apartheid South Africa and Bophuthatswana as a guest of their governments, first in 1986.

Mikania natalensis

The butterfly Actinote thalia was considered for the biological control of Chromolaena odorata in southern Africa, but permission to release this control agent was not sought because the larvae were found to consume the leaves of Mikania natalensis.

Moggridgea

The majority of the 33 species of the genus are found in southern Africa and Socotra, with outlying and relict species in Australia's Southwest and Kangaroo Island.

Moggridgea tingle

The closest extant relatives of the spider are found at Kangaroo Island, Socotra and in southern Africa.

Mthethwa

Mthethwa Paramountcy, a Southern African state that arose in the 18th century south of Delagoa Bay and inland in eastern southern Africa

MuseuMAfricA

The Geology Museum collection consists of over 17000 rock and mineral samples from Southern Africa including many type samples and samples from the Tsumeb area of Namibia, the witwatersrand reefs and Okiep area

New Covenant Ministries International

Around this time Coastlands International Christian Centre (Adelaide) functioned as an unofficial headquarters and regional base for Australasia, with Southlands Church International (Los Angeles) and New Covenant Church (Bryanston) as regional bases for North America and southern Africa respectively.

Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa

The Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (NECLSA) was an anti-apartheid organization founded in 1977 at Yale University by members of the Black Student Alliance at Yale (BSAY) and students at Rutgers University in response to the massacre of black students by the South African police during the Soweto student uprisings in June 1976.

Nyassa

Malawi, a country in Southern Africa once known as Nyasaland

Oldwood

Leucosidea sericea - a species of evergreen tree and large shrub native to the Afromontane regions of Southern Africa.

Paintbrush lily

Haemanthus coccineus, an amarillid bulbous (bulbed) plant native to southern Africa

Psikhelekedana

These sculptures were made from the wood of the Trichilia emetica, a tree of the Mahogany family found in Southern Africa.

Sarah Buck

Whilst most of her work has been based around the UK’s South West, there have also been several overseas projects including Mmabtho Airport in Southern Africa, a new 15 km long sewerage scheme for Negril in Jamaica, and roads in Southern Africa.

Succulent Karoo

Monkey beetles, largely endemic to southern Africa, are concentrated in the Succulent Karoo and are important pollinators of the flora.

UKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park

The park includes Royal Natal National Park, a provincial park, and Drakensberg National Park, which covers part of Drakensberg, the highest mountain in Southern Africa.

Union of South Africa

Sir George Grey, the Governor of Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861, decided that unifying the states of southern Africa would be mutually beneficial.

Who's Who of Southern Africa

The Who's Who of Southern Africa website is owned and managed by Naspers Limited.