DLinza Forest PinWheel SnaiL: South African Endemic Mollusk

This gastropod is an air breathing pulmonate (its gills being replaced by a single lung).
Spiral bristles radiate from the shell (a whorl), resembling a firework wheel from which it takes its name...

This small (9.7mm) terrestrial land snail is found only in an area of aproximately 250 ha in KwaZulu, Natal.

AMAMPONDO (Xhosa Music): South Africa


J.L.B Smith: South African Ichthyologist


In 1938 he was the first to identify a Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), considered as extinct!
 He the organised the scientific search which ended 14 years later in the catch of another specimen.

Arnold Vosloo: South African Actor

He is best known as the high priest Imhotep in the motion picture "The Mummy" and its sequel.
Photo of Arnold Vosloo from The Mummy (1999)
He also played the role of the superheroe Darkman (II and III).





And starred in Secret Agent Cody Banks and G.I Joe!