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- 10 States, 6 are landlocked
- Lesotho and Swaziland as enclaves
- Cabinda as an exclave of Angola
- Rich in natural resources and agricultural production, yet Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are in the low-income category, others are middle-income
- South Africa is the richest country, producing about 45% of Subsaharan Africa's GDP.
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- 1652 Dutch East India Company founds Cape Town (brought Southeast Asians)
- 1800 British arrive (brought South Asians)
- Precious minerals discovered
- 1867 – diamonds
- 1886 – gold in the Transvaal (Boer area)
- 1899-1902 Boer War --British defeat the Dutch (Boers, than Afrikaners)
- 1910 Union of South Africa established. Self-governing state in British Empire.
- Restricts political and property rights to whites
- 1994 Apartheid is abandoned
- 1994 Apartheid Ends, Mandela elected
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- State policy of racial discrimination
- No mixing of races
- everybody assigned to racial group on basis of color
- white, black, Asian, colored
- separate living areas, separate amenities
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| South African Black Homelands |
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- 76% of population given 15% of land
- denied citizenship in the rest of the land
- Also called Bantustans
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| Regions of South Africa by ethnicity |
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- Zulu: Kwazulu-Natal
- Xhosa: Eastern Cape
- Tswana: Botswana border
- Coloured: Cape Town
- Indian: Durban
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| Middle Tier Country: Botswana |
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- 1.8 million
- British
- Kalahari Desert
- Oil
- AIDS
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- 2.1 millions
- Namib Desert
- Caprivi Strip
- German SW Africa, than South African rule
- 1990 independence comes
- 35% urban
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- 13.8 million
- Rhodesia (British)
- Landlocked
- Harare
- Mineral rich (Grand Dyke)
- Was last white minority government
- Shona people (82%) and Ndebele (14%) are two major tribes that fought for control, with Shona winning after white minority government thrown out
- In the 1980s, Mugabe land recently confiscated from white farmers and given to blacks, leading to violence
- Mugabe destroys the shantytown homes of 700,000 people
- 4 million refugees and 80% unemployment
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- 17.7 million
- Portuguese
- Raw material rich
- Cabinda is an oil-rich exclave
- Angola is an OPEC nation
- Upon independence in 1975:
- Communists in North supported by USSR and Cuba
- US supports rebels in the South
- Civil War ended in 2002
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- 21.3 million
- Portuguese
- Following independence in 1975, Marxism took over, economy fell apart and civil war led to more than 1 million refugees to Malawi
- South Africa has helped as Maputo is closest port to Johannesburg
- One of the poorest countries in the world
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- 12.7 million
- Northern Rhodesia (British)
- Landlocked
- Perforated
- Copperbelt area is mineral rich
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- 14.5 million
- British Nyasaland
- Farming in Malawi, but workers cross borders for mining jobs
- Elongated
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- 250 miles from coast
- 20 million
- French
- Fourth largest island
- Malay and Indonesian peoples came from SE Asia 2,000 years ago
- Africans brought as slaves and wives
- Rice, not corn as many African countries
- Unique biogeography
- 30% urban, 25 year doubling time
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