Category: South Africa

City Guide: 10 things you didn’t know about Cape Town; FIA Formula E

The inaugural Cape Town E-Prix sees Formula E visit the southernmost tip of the African continent. FIA Formula E gets to grips with the oldest city in South Africa to see why Cape Town and the Rainbow Nation are a match made in heaven for electric street racing.

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Earth’s 5 oldest mountains and their incredible impact on life on this planet; Sade Agard; Interesting Engineering

Photo: Marieke Peche

Journey back in time with Interesting Engineering (IE) as we reveal Earth’s oldest mountains.

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South African piece in puzzle of human evolution; Justin Adams; Monash Lens

The discovery of a child’s skull in the Drimolen cave system, in South Africa’s “Cradle of Humankind”, is not only the earliest fossil specimen of Homo erectus, but proves three species of human ancestors lived in the same place at the same time, adding to our knowledge of evolution. Read more at Monash Lens.

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They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs; Tristen Taylor & Nathalie Bertrams; Monga Bay

Scraping sounds fill the nights at Mapungubwe, a national park at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers, where the borders of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa meet. Families of elephants relentlessly tear the bark off ancient baobabs, scraping their tusks on the trees and digging deep into their cores to extract the fibrous, moisture-rich interior.

Source: They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs