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Birders, South Africa's Garden Route is a haven of avian diversity
South Africa's famous scenic road has long been a tourist magnet, but only now is the sheer variety of birds awaiting hikers becoming the focus of attention. A new project now aims to turn Garden ...
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A drought, a gift and the magic of saffron — how a Karoo farmer discovered a golden lifesaver
When the dry weather threatened his livelihood, Karoo farmer Joe Kroon turned to saffron, which proved to be a flourishing business.
The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...