b instructions in a Tanzanian ‘manual’ on health improvements Mtu ni Afya (published in Swahili in Dar-es-Salaam) on the use of water from a stream in a rural area:

The rest of Southern Africa has been strongly influenced by Britain. The attempt to form a Federation of Central Africa with Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Malawi), to create a larger economic grouping, was abandoned, and Britain was left attempting to control Southern Rhodesia, where a powerful white minority ran the country for a time. Material conditions in the three countries have not improved in general because population has grown fast, with little increase in the area under cultivation and yields, higher in Zimbabwe than in its neighbouring countries except for South Africa, fluctuating and declining in the early 1990s.