ABSTRACT
Extending from 34°S, the savanna biome comprises about 1 435 713 km2 or 53.7% of southern Africa (Rutherford, 1997). It occurs in east-central Namibia, in almost all of southern Botswana, the southern tip of Zimbabwe, southern and eastern Swaziland, all of southern Mozambique, and approximately a third of South Africa, predominantly in the northern parts of the Cape Province and Transvaal, and the eastern seaboard of Natal and eastern Cape Province (Figure 7.1).
