Angus (London Underground) offers an ill-conceived homage to the “Dark Continent” yarns of a century ago with this adventure tale featuring the young Winston Churchill. In 1899, the future prime ...

When the astonishing Golden Rhinoceros was discovered on this arid hilltop in 1933, many whites in South Africa refused to believe that something so exquisite could have been crafted by a black ...

It’s a name that’s become synonomous with our heritage and proof of how advanced our ancestors were, but not many people know about it? Phumlani S Langa goes on a tour with SANParks to visit the ...

The magic of history gets displaced by a failed attempt at mixing modern times with tradition, amid litter and plastic bottles strewn about the site. In this time of “take back the land”, the story of ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Mapungubwe is a world heritage site and national park located on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. From about 1000 AD the settlement there developed into a major African state ...

Mining in the vicinity of Mapungubwe would turn it into an industrial area, the Save Mapungubwe Coalition said. It said this would threaten the growing ecotourism sector based entirely on the region's ...

Most developing countries face acute tensions between socio-economic development and environmental protection. Any opposition to proposed development, on environmental or heritage grounds, is seen as ...

Mapungubwe is set hard against the northern border of South Africa, joining Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is an open, expansive savannah landscape at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers.

A coalition of civil society organisations will lodge an appeal against the granting of a water-use license to a company aiming to establish a colliery near the Mapungubwe National Park in northern ...

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 2003, is caught in this tension. An area of about 28,000 hectares, it lies near the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers ...