Editing Local exchange trading system (section)

=== Africa ===
In 2003, the original CES was founded as internet-based LETS in [[Cape Town]], South Africa. By 2011 it had grown into a global network spanning 99 countries.<ref name=CESwho>{{cite web|url=https://www.community-exchange.org/home/who-are-we/|website=Community Exchange System|title=Who are we?|access-date=29 March 2019}}</ref>

{{as of|March 2019}} the following African countries had active communities linked in to the CES network: [[Botswana]] 2; [[Cameroon]] 1; [[Ethiopia]] 1; [[Kenya]] 2; [[Lesotho]] 2; [[Liberia]] 1; [[Madagascar]] 1; [[Namibia]] 2; [[Nigeria]] 2; [[South Africa]] 62; [[Swaziland]] 1; [[Uganda]] 1; [[Zambia]] 2; [[Zimbabwe]] 2.<ref name=CESstats/>