Southern Africa Today

Nowadays South Africa is the strongest economy in that region and they have stable government. The challenges of South Africa is ending of apartheid problems, separating different races. Related to the a[artheid problems, many foreign countries refused to invest money in South Africa, and other sport organizations didn't include South Africans in the competition. South Africa has more resources and industry than other countries in the region, and that helped bringing opportunities of strong economy.
Small inclave countries like Lesotho and Swaziland has fewer resources and land, resulting as a poor country. Namibia has just gained its independence in 1990 from South Africa, but most of its land is desert, making them not suitable for mass products from agriculture, so they are a poor country. Botswana is on of Africa's most success countries of the world's highest economic growth since 1960s. zumbabwe is a poor country due to high inflation. they do have resources, but it doesn't affect country's wealth that much. Mozambique is one of the world's poorest counties because of civil wars happening often. Madagascar is working to improve country's struggling economy, and their incomes are mostly exports of coffee and other natural resources. Madagascar is also popular with tourists visiting to see unique plants and animals. So as a result, South Africa and Botswana are two most successful countries in the region, and the factors of wealth are they have big lands, and plenty resources. And other countries are very poor mostly due to civil wars.