Talk:Geography of South Africa

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Landforms

well i need to know what landforms and bodies of waters are in south africa but i do not know i really need help??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.142.16 (talk • contribs) 13:16, May 2, 2007 South Africa is not well known for its natural lakes, but butes and mesas are quite common. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.70.24 (talk) 20:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with the Introduction

As far as I can tell, most of the introduction to this article is just copy-pasted directly from the U.S. Library of Congress. http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12108.html It'll probably need a lot of trimming. --OmgItsTheSmartGuy (talk) 15:21, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I just decided to move a majority of the introduction into its own "Landform Regions" section. Obviously, a majority of it is still copy-pasted material, but at least the organization of this article is now slightly less bizarre. --OmgItsTheSmartGuy (talk) 15:43, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've merged the Central Plateau and Landform Regions sections together. This makes the article noticeably shorter, but that's mostly because most of the info in this article was originally redundant. However, I left out some of the information in the old Central Plateau section where the info seemed or rather trivial or obscure (namely: "Ghaap Plateau" and "Limpopo Highlands"). --OmgItsTheSmartGuy (talk) 16:42, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Name of south-easternmost point

I can't find any mention of the name "Shebeen Point" elsewhere on the web. Zeus apomuios (talk) 19:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the dubious name, and tagged the remainder as needing citation. Greenman (talk) 19:53, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]