Culture and history
Driven by imagination
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- 10 August 2012
What do you get when you give four of your latest car models to a group of artists to play with? Imaginative Mzansi interpretations that were showcased at a recent event hosted by Renault South Africa, that's what.
• Madiba's life captured in art
Solving early human culture riddle
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- 07 August 2012
Recent analysis and dating of archaeological material discovered at a rock shelter in South Africa reveals that modern human behaviour, as we know it, developed much earlier than previously thought.
• Fossils tell the mammal story
SANParks ups their game for rhinos
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- 03 August 2012
The iconic Kruger National Park – where most of the 281 rhino deaths in the country so far this year have occurred – is boosting not only its ranger numbers, but its tracking technology in an effort to thwart the syndicates that live off the trade.
• Taking the plunge for our rhinos
Fossils tell the mammal story
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- 25 July 2012
A rare collection of original fossils that evolved over a period of 120-million years, dating back even further than the discovery of early hominids, is on display at Maropeng in the Cradle of Humankind.
• No bedbugs for early humans
Breathing new life into Hillbrow
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- 17 July 2012
Johannesburg’s inner city suburb of Hillbrow has become home to a new world class maternal and child health facility. The Shandukani Centre, one of the largest non-hospital based clinics in Southern Africa, will provide expert healthcare and treatment to vulnerable women and children, right on their doorstep.
• SA’s second health train rolls out
Town teams up for Mandela statue
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- 10 July 2012
The town of Worcester in the Western Cape is to become home to a new sculpture of South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela. The sculpture, the world’s fifth of the anti-apartheid activist, will be unveiled just in time for his 94th birthday on 18 July.
• Madiba's life captured in art
South Africa's wine tourism, best in the world
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- 08 June 2012
South Africa's wine tourism has been rated the best-developed in the world by International Wine Review, one of the world's most influential opinion formers on wine.
• SA winery scoops Chinese deal
