High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southern Afrotemperate Forest (The Southern Cape Forests) is a kind of tall, shady, multi-layered indigenous South African forest. This is the main forest-type in the south-western part of South Africa, naturally extending from the Cape Peninsula in the west, as far as Port Elizabeth in the east. In this range (apart from the massive Knysna-tsitsikamma forest complex) it usually occurs in small forest pockets, surrounded by Fynbos vegetation.