With the end of SouthAfrica’s international isolation in 1994, the country resumed participation in many international organizations from which it was excluded in the final years of apartheid.
SouthAfrica is also a member of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community.
Centuries before whites settled in SouthAfrica, Bantu-speaking groups migrated from west central Africa and settled in a fertile region between the Drakensberg Mountains and the Indian Ocean.
It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Namibia in the northwest, on Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, on Mozambique and Swaziland in the northeast, and on the Indian Ocean in the east and south.
SouthAfrica has three main geographic regions: a great interior plateau; an escarpment of mountain ranges that rims the plateau on the east, south, and west; and a marginal area lying between the escarpment and the sea.
SouthAfrica was strongly opposed to the establishment of fl rule in the white-dominated countries of Angola, Mozambique, and Rhodesia, and gave military assistance to the whites there.
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