South Africa´s Re-Breeding Project: Extinct Quaggas


The Quagga, a uniquely South African animal that inhabited the Karoo and southern Free State was hunted to extinction in the late 1800´s by colonists, who considered the species as competitors for their grass-eating sheep, goats and livestock.

Photograph of a painting by Franz Roubal - 'The extermination of the Quagga'
"The extermination of the Quagga"
 Franz Roubal 1931


The Revival of an Extict Species: 
The Quagga Project South Africa. CLick! 
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Shoe House, Mpumalanga (South Africa)

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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 8)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 7)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 6)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 5)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 4)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 3)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 2)


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Kirikou and the Sorceress (Part 1)


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South Africa´s San Hunters



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FreshLyGroUnd: South Africa Music


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SouTH Africa´s Endemic Birds: Southern Bold Ibis

The scientific name of this bird Geronticus calvus means bald, old man; it refers to its bare head and wrinkled skin, on its face and neck. 

 

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This bird makes a weak gobbling sound, so old Afrikaans named it wild turkeywilde-kalkoen .

The Southern Bold Ibis has always been hunted by humans! Young birds  were used by the Zulu natives as medicine.
Boer farmers shot this ibis during the South African wars, to supplement their meat supplies and settlers hunted it for both food and its feathers.
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South Africa´s NationaL Bird: The BLue CrAne

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South Africa´s: Long Tailed Cape SugarBird

These birds are common or endemic in and around Cape Town, Cape Point National Park and Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.

The male long tailed Cape SugarBird.

And the female. 
A characteristic of the Cape Sugarbird is the sound it makes when it flies: when the bird beats its wings, a frrt-frrt sound is made to attract the females...
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Kimberley: South Africa´s First Diamond Mine


The Kimberley Diamond Mines known worldwide are located in the town of Kimberley, South Africa. In 1866 Erasmus Jacobs discovered a small stone by the Orange River, it was the first South African diamond!
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When diamonds are still not cut or polished they are called rough diamonds and can be found in octhahedra, cubic, macle, and dodecahedron crystal shapes.
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An octahedra has got eight faces and is the most common form of a rough diamond. A cube shape is like a simple box. A macle is pyramid shaped. A dodecahedron has a rounded shape with many different types of flat faces on it: a perfect one will have 20 triangular faces, 30 square faces and 12 pentagonal faces!

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Have Fun LEarNinG...

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School´s Music lessons with The Jackson 5 ABC song

Can you find Michael Jackson among his brothers...?
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The King of SouL: Sam CooKe "Wonderful World" of SchooL

He was an American GospeL, SouL, Pop, R&B  (Rythm and BLUeS) singer and songwriter.
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SouTH Africa´s BIG Wave Surfing

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South Africa´s NationaL AnimaL: The Springbok


They can run as fast as 97 kilometres per hour (60 miles per hour)  and can leap 4 metres (13 feet) into the air and long jump up to 15 metres (50 feet).

View videos of the Springbok: (Antidorcas Marsupialis). CLick Here! 
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HappiLy Ever After: GoLdiLocks and the 3 Bears


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