British Naturalist and Artist Marianne North in Kaffraria (South Africa)
At the "Gates" of St John´s river
Looking up stream from the mouth of the St John´s river
Anton van Wouw: Father of S. African Sculpture
"Dagga Smoker". Bronze of a Kalahari hunter-gatherer bushman, smoking dagga, (a form of cannabis sativa) and drinking water from a hollowed ostrich egg.
"Hammer Worker" 60 cm bronze at a sale in London is estimated to sell for£35,000 to £55,000 shows the hard life of the miners.
Bronze, "Shangaan", Signed & Dated 1907, 36cm:US Dollars 25.000-35.000.
"Hammer Worker" 60 cm bronze at a sale in London is estimated to sell for
Bronze, "Shangaan", Signed & Dated 1907, 36cm:
C. G. Finch-Davies: A British Soldier in South Africa
Cape or Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus)
Common Striped Hawk (Hippotion eson)
Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor)
March Flower: South Africa
April Fool, Blood flower, Paintbrush Lily, PowderPuff Lily, King-of-Candia, Picushion
A Summer surprise popping from bulbs! The bulb contains coccinine which is an alkaloid with a known convulsive action.
Fresh leaves were applied as a dressing to septic ulcers and sores and also to the pustules of anthrax. A diuretic was made from the sliced bulb boiled in vinegar and mixed with honey. Asthma was also treated with this mixture. www.plantzafrica.com
A Summer surprise popping from bulbs! The bulb contains coccinine which is an alkaloid with a known convulsive action.
Gerard Moerdijk: S. African Architect
The Voortrekker Monument was built in honor of the
Construction began on the 13th July 1937 and it was inaugurated on 16th December 1949.
Monument to Karle Landman leader of the Voortrekkers.
Paleontologists Uncover World’s Oldest Dinosaur Nesting Site
This is an artist’s interpretation, showing 190 million year old nests, eggs, hatchlings and adults of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus in
Credit: Artwork by Julius Csotonyi
Close-up of embryonic skeleton of Massospondylus from clutch of eggs at the nesting site.
Credit: Photo by D. Scott
Legendary fossil hunter
James Kitching found thousands of important pre-dinosaur fossils from more than 250-million years ago in the Karoo (South Africa) , and also helped prove the Theory of Ccontinental Drift: that Southern Africa was once part of a much larger land mass that included Antarctica, parts of the Americas and Australia.
There was a lot of debate about whether Gondwana Continent (South America, southern Africa and Antarctica) had ever existed.
So Kitching was recruited to fly down to Antarctica and look for fossils common to both continents. And it was there, on a rocky snowy shelf, that he found the fossilised skeleton of Thrinaxodon, just like the one he had found near Bethulie in the southern Free State province of South Africa.
Historical Period: Early Triassic (250-245 million years ago)
Size and Weight: About 20 inches long and a few pounds
Diet: Meat
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