Destination South Africa

...South Africa has a wealth of plant and animal life splayed across its variegated climactic zones. And has much to offer anyone with a deep interest in history, too...
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The Sobantu Floods of September 1987

...quot;) meets the Baynespruit.The Force of Water©Leoine JoubertOne of the many Sobantu residents whose home was completely lost under the flood waters of 1987.Days of steady rain saturated the catchments, spilling downhill into the streams which feed..
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Informal Trading in South Africa

...Steel argues that small-scale local markets are key to a city being able to feed itself...
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Urban Based Food Insecurity

...And it isn’t something people speak about, probably because there is an element of shame in not being able to feed your family. If you’re without a house or running water, that’s a service delivery problem with the state...
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Wildlife of Marion Island

...extraordinary animals is only now being understood, even as their numbers dwindle on the sharp end of long-line fishing hooks.Sub-Antarctic Seals©Leonie JoubertElephant seals on Marion Island.The largest mammal found here is the southern elephant seal, an animal..
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The Urban Malnourished

...The Urban MalnourishedThe Urban MalnourishedDietary ParadoxesFirst, there was the French paradox: the world of dietary science was transfixed by the apparent enigma of how a nation could indulge in a diet high in artery-clogging animal fats, and yet stay..
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South African Initiation Figures

...The tlopo, which consists of a mixture of clay and animal fat rubbed into the head and shaped into a helmet-like structure, appears to have strong associations with notions of fertility and therefore with the continuity of the group...
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Food Gardens for the Urban Poor

...But without a tap near the beds, and with the blind eye of the shut-off trickle-feed metering system sticking to its own unblinking mandate, watering vegetables becomes a tad more complicated that just pointing the nozzle of a hosepipe at them and turning..
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Real Life Story: A Squatter Camp Resident

...Her father was sickly by the time the family moved to Kimberley, and she took a job selling milk in a local dairy...
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Youth of Soweto

...Essential services in the city had ground to a halt, with garbage lining every street, sometimes standing two metres high and littered with reeking, decaying animal carcasses...
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Tracking an Elusive Pangolin

...William took a walkie-talkie from the console and set off following the spoor, while Jolyon and I drove in a square pattern to see whether the animal had crossed up ahead.A Promising Burrow©Nigel DennisPangolin.A call came through on the walkie-talkie..
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Real Life Story: Born on the Wrong Side of the Tracks

...The glinting steel arteries that oxygenated De Aar’s economy for decades still run through the town, but their chugging locomotives do not stop as often as before to feed the town the lifeblood they once did...
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