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Family vacations at Fancourt. Perhaps the best first question is to establish exactly where the region is, or what constitutes the description – Southern Africa? An alternative viewpoint is one that includes those The term Southern Africa can cause confusion as Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo it is sometimes used in macro terms to refer to (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, those countries which lie south of the equator, or Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, alternatively those countries, the UN viewpoint on Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. countries linked through SADC (the Southern Africa Development Community) which expands the region, based on mutual interests in culture, security, business, sport, etc. to include; Angola, this, which lie south of the Zambesi River. The latter moniker means that the region includes Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. DG DG SAIO SAIO 2020 2020 | 5 | 5