| The Limpopo River forms South Africa’s northern border with Botswana and Zimbabwe before flowing through southern Mozambique and entering the Indian Ocean. In the section of the river shown here, South Africa is in the foreground and Zimbabwe is in the background. In Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, the Elephant’s Child, who wants to know what the Crocodile has for dinner, is told to “Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.” |