Located at the southern tip of Africa, with coastlines on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, is divided into three natural regions: a narrow coastal lowland is warm and humid, which is grown mainly in sugar cane plantations, and vineyards in the Cape region in the interior of the vast plateau stretching from the Veld, who constitute 40% of the territory where they were installed and large farms, wheat and corn and cattle and sheep ranches, and the northwest Rand, the mining region, with large cities and industries. The exploitation of mineral resources is the foundation of the economy is the world’s largest producer of gold and diamonds, manganese, and the second eighth of coal. Water resources are overexploited. Salinization is the greatest threat in dry regions. (more…)