Why This "Hole" Controls South Africa

Head to https://www.squarespace.com/geography... to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using GEOGRAPHYBYGEOFF! -- 🗺️ Get the limited-time Lesotho map from my new store, "Maps By Geoff": https://www.mapsbygeoff.com/ -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com -- South Africa is the economic giant of the African continent. It has gold, diamonds, and borders two massive oceans. But it also has a fatal flaw. The country is drying out, and the only thing keeping its industrial heart from total collapse is this small, independent hole in the map. So why can’t South Africa and its largest city Johannesburg survive without this tiny country? -- Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:33 - The Kingdom in the Sky and the Dry Giant 5:20 - Sponsored By Squarespace 6:45 - The Mountain Fortress and the Apartheid Ocean 12:21 - South Africa Can’t Survive Without Lesotho -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://mapsbygeoff.com -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)