| EASTERNCAPE | A province of South Africa, the capital of which is Bhisho (7,4) |
| FREESTATE | A province of South Africa, the capital of which is Bloemfontein (4,5) |
| TRANSKEI | A former Xhosa homeland in South Africa, the capital of which was Umtata (8) |
| EASTERN | ___ Cape, province of South Africa whose capital is Bhisho (7) |
| CRY | Alan Paton's classic novel of South Africa, ..., The Beloved Country |
| ANTENATAL | Before giving birth in old part of South Africa, the bet was on (9) |
| SOMALIA | Country in the Horn of Africa, the capital of which is Mogadishu (7) |
| GABON | Republic on the coast of west central Africa, the capital of which is Libreville (5) |
| ANGOLA | A republic in southwest Africa, the capital of which is Luanda (6) |
| NATAL | KwaZulu- ---, a province of South Africa, created in 1994 (5) |
| NEWBRUNSWICK | A province of south-east Canada on the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy (3,9) |
| UGANDA | Republic in East-Central Africa, the capital of which is Kampala (6) |
| ZIMBABWE | Landlocked country in southern Africa, the capital of which is Harare (8) |
| NIGER | Landlocked republic in West Africa, the capital of which is Niamey (5) |
| RWANDA | Republic in Central Africa, the capital of which is Kigali (6) |
| NAMIBIA | Country in Southern Africa, the capital of which is Windhoek (7) |
| MALI | Landlocked country in West Africa, the capital of which is Bamako (4) |
| ETHIOPIA | Country in East Africa, the capital of which is Addis Ababa (8) |
| ZAMBIA | Landlocked republic in southern Africa, the capital of which is Lusaka (6) |
| HOPE | Headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, the Cape of Good _ (4) |
