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Skeleton Coast
The Skeleton Coast of Namibia - an area once feared and shunned because of its treacherous coastline - is now prized as a place of beauty and tranquility, a place of magnificent …
A History of South Africa
The Thirstland Trek, 1874-1881
During the late nineteenth century a number of organiszd treks left the Transvaal. The first of these left the ZAR in May 1874. Seven years later, in January 1881, after the …
Jan Smuts, 1870–1950
It has been said that the best-known South Africans outside South Africa are Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts. Smuts is regarded as the most prominent Afrikaner ever and one of the …
Uit die wolf se bek
The Magaliesberg
The Magaliesberg by Vincent Carruthers was first published in 1990. A second edition was published in 2000 and reprinted in 2007. It has now been revised again for publication to …
The Boers in Angola: 1928 - 1975
Nicol Stassen devotes, among others, an entire chapter to the gripping story of the Dorsland (Thirstland) Trekkers and their adventures. During these Angola Boers' stay in Angola …
Day for a hullabaloo
In 1838, Robert Schumann composed a 13-piece piano work which he entitled Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood). He later added individual titles for each movement, after his wife …
Forests of Central Africa
At three times the size of France, Central African forests are the largest tropical fores mass after the Amazon and cover a large portion of the Congo Basin, the second largest …
Giants of the Desert
The Kaokoveld, one of the world's most forbidding wastes, is host to an assortment of animals that have found ways of surviving in this hostile environment. Here giraffes go …