A report on Eswatini and Southern Africa

A composite satellite image of Southern Africa

Waterfall in the Witwatersrand region near Johannesburg

A 19th-century Swazi container, carved in wood

Sandton, Johannesburg, the financial centre of South Africa

Southern Africa (UN subregion and the SACU)
Geographical Southern Africa, including the UN subregion
Southern African Development Community (SADC)

United Nations geoscheme for Africa
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Northern Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa

Mswati III has been king of Eswatini since 1986.

A proportional representation of Swazi exports

Eswatini is part of the Southern African Customs Union (green).

Eswatini's population in thousands (1950–2021)

King Mswati III at the reed dance festival where he will choose his next wife

Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini (left) and Temtsimba Dlamini (right) at the reed dance (umhlanga) festival 2006

Eswatini (eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland (officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Countries commonly included in Southern Africa include Angola, Botswana, the Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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South Africa

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Migrations that formed the modern Rainbow nation

Mapungubwe Hill, the site of the former capital of the Kingdom of Mapungubwe

Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias planting the cross at Cape Point after being the first to successfully round the Cape of Good Hope.

Charles Davidson Bell's 19th-century painting of Jan van Riebeeck, who founded the first European settlement in South Africa, arrives in Table Bay in 1652

Depiction of a Zulu attack on a Boer camp in February 1838

The First Boer War was a rebellion of Boers against the British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence.

"For use by white persons" – apartheid sign in English and Afrikaans

FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands in January 1992

The Central Plateau edged by the Great Escarpment, and the Cape Fold Belt

The thick line traces the Great Escarpment bordering the central plateau; the line's red portion is the Drakensberg. The Escarpment rises to its highest, over 3000 m, where it separates KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho. No regions on the map have well-defined borders except where the Escarpment or a mountain range forms a clear dividing line

Drakensberg, the eastern and highest portion of the Great Escarpment which surrounds the east, south and western borders of the central plateau of Southern Africa

South African giraffes, Kruger National Park

Lowveld vegetation of the Kruger National Park

Union Buildings in Pretoria, seat of the executive

Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, seat of the legislature

Soweto Pride 2012 participants protest against violence against lesbians. The country has strong human rights laws but some groups are still discriminated against. It is the first country in Africa to recognise same sex marriage

Change in per capita GDP of South Africa, 1700–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars.

Annual per capita personal income by race group in South Africa relative to white levels

A proportional representation of South Africa exports, 2019

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is the largest stock exchange on the African continent

Workers packing pears for export in the Ceres Valley, Western Cape

Life expectancy in select Southern African countries, 1950–2019. HIV/AIDS has caused a fall in life expectancy.

A plate of freshly prepared Babotie, a meat-based meal which originated within South Africa.

The Springboks in a bus parade after winning the 2007 Rugby World Cup

A SAAF JAS 39 Gripen the main combat aircraft of the South African Air Force during take off

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

It is bounded to the south by 2798 km of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho.

Botswana

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The 'Two Rhino' painting at Tsodilo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

German map of 1905 still showing the undivided Bechuanaland area

Sechele I who led a Batswana Merafe Coalition against Boers in 1852

3 Dikgosi Monument: Khama III, Sebele I & Bathoen I who negotiated a Protectorate

Postage stamp of British-ruled Bechuanaland from 1960

Botswana map of Köppen climate classification.

The current president, Mokgweetsi Masisi

Botswana soldiers board a Botswana Defence Force plane to Mozambique, July 2021

Graphical depiction of Botswana's product exports in 28 colour-coded categories.

GDP per capita of Botswana, 1950 to 2018

GDP per capita (current), % of world average, 1960–2012; Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique

Kazungula Bridge, connecting Botswana and Zambia

Unity Dow, author of Far and Beyon, The Screaming of the Innocent and Heavens May Fall

Physicist in a Lab at Botswana International University of Science and Technology

Scottish Livingstone Hospital in Molepolole

I-Towers, Gaborone Central Business District

Botswana (, also ), officially the Republic of Botswana (Lefatshe la Botswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 from the main British colonies in the region, the High Commission Territories—the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland (now Lesotho), and Swaziland (now Eswatini)—were not included, but provision was made for their later incorporation.

Mozambique

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Arab-Swahili slave traders and their captives on the Ruvuma River

The Island of Mozambique is a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay on the Nacala coast of northern Mozambique, first explored by Europeans in the late 15th century.

View of the Central Avenue in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, ca. 1905

Portuguese language printing and typesetting class, 1930

Portuguese troops during the Portuguese Colonial War, some loading FN FAL and G3

The geopolitical situation in 1975, nations friendly to the FRELIMO are shown in orange

A US helicopter flying over the flooded Limpopo River during the 2000 Mozambique flood

Mozambique map of Köppen climate classification zones

A section of the crowd at its final campaign rally for the 2014 election

Mozambique's embassy in Washington, D.C.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets members of Indian community in Mozambique, 7 July 2016

Historical development of real GDP per capita in Mozambique, since 1960

A proportional representation of Mozambique's exports

Traditional sailboat in Ilha de Moçambique

European tourists on the beach, in Inhambane, Mozambique

National Mozambican airline, LAM Mozambique

Woman fetching water during the dry season from a polluted source in Machaze District of the Central Manica Province

The increase in the number of HIV positive Mozambicans on Antiretroviral treatment, 2003–14

Woman with traditional mask in Mozambique

Headquarters of Rádio Moçambique in KaMpfumo district of Maputo (photo 2009)

Pupils in front of their school in Nampula, Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique, ; Mozambiki; Msumbiji; Muzambhiki), is a country located in Southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa to the southwest.

Bantu-speaking people's migration into Mozambique dates as far back as the 4th century BC. It's believed between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, waves of migration from the west and north went through the Zambezi River valley and then gradually into the plateau and coastal areas of Southern Africa.