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.

CaPe TowN (South Africa): Sounds of the City

SkimBoarding in Durban, South Africa

Edward Duckitt: 8 hours in Cape Town

Sisifo Nhlapo: South African BMX Champion

aKING: South African Music (The RunAround)

Arnold Vosloo: South African Actor

He is best known as the high priest Imhotep in the motion picture "The Mummy" and its sequel.

He also played the role of the superheroe Darkman (II and III).





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

One Little Owl: Nursery Rhymes

"The Cat In The Hat" read by Justin Bieber

The Chicken and the Ducks: Aesop & Son

Karen Ahlschlager: South African Illustrator

SAN People

ZULU People

South African Explorers: Francis Galton (1853)

He was Charles Darwin´s half cousin and a victorian geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer and the  inventor of fingerprint identification among other things...

Karen Zoid´s "AirPLane Jane": South African Music

Sun In My Pocket: LOCNVILLE (South African Republic)

The Hen and the Cat Tale: Aesop & Son

GAMES!!!

BaLL Hog, Word JungLe, Race to Ramses, WaLL of Words + CLICK HERE

BirDs...

The UgLy DucKling

White-Backed MouseBird: South Africa

This is a social bird, with small groups of related birds feeding together and engaging in mutual feather cleansing.It roosts in groups at night.

Its perching habits are parrot-like: it often hangs from its legs with each one gripping a different branch  rather than squatting on their legs like most birds.


If holding mousebirds do not grab the tail, because the flight feathers come out so easily as to suggest that it is a sacrificial defence mechanism!

Jack PohL: South African Painter & Photographer

MAGOEBASKLOOF,  TZANEEN (NORTHERN TRANSVAAL) Signed and dated 1932

Cattle Resting on the Veldt

"Gemsbuck on the Bechuanaland Protektorate"

Educated Fish

Endemic South African CatSharks

Cape Elephantfish, Josef, or Saint. Joseph Shark: S. Africa

It´silvery all over, scaleless with a single dorsal spine.
Usual maximum lenght: 1.22 metres.
Mass: 5.25 kg.

Depth range: 10–374 metres.
Biogeography: Temperate or cold waters.
Habitats: Bottom dwelling;  shallow sandy area; inshore or open ocean.
Food: small fish and invertebrates.
Reproduction: Egg cases (hairy and spindle shaped). 

Behaviour: Shy.
Activity: Diurnal.
Longevity: 10 Years.
Minimum Population Doubling Time: 4.5–14 years.

The FreshWater ElephanTFish: South Africa

The Elephantfishes are a diverse family, with different sizes and shapes.
The smallest are just 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in adult length and the largest up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft).

Also, its cerebellum (part of the brain) is very enlarged, with a size ratio similar to that of humans!
Finally, elephantfishes are notable for their ability to generate electric fields that permit them to sense their environment in turbid waters.
Listen to Electric Fish here: CLiCK

Junior Billabong Surfing Championship at Durban

Day 1...

Final Day...

Harry Bolus: A Botanical Artist in S. Africa

Englishman Harry Bolus, described more Cape orchid species than anyone (except orchidologist John Lindley of the Royal Botanic Gardens).
Disa racemosa
He became the greatest authority on South African orchids.
Disa elegans and Monkey Beetle (Petrichia sp.)

The Serval or Tierboskat: S. African Wild Cat

Known in Afrikaans as "tiger forest cat", Servals have the longest legs of any cat relative to their body size!

The Serval can make a vertical jump of up to 3m and a horizontal jump of 3.6m.

The CaRaCaL or Desert Lynx: S. African Feline

The Battle of Isandlwana, South Africa

Fought on 22 January 1879, this was the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. 
Eleven days after the British began their invasion of Zululand, a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a part of the British main column of about 1,800 colonial, native troops and around 400 civilians. 

The Zulus were equipped with the traditional Assegai iron spears and cow-hide shields, but also some muskets and old rifle. 
The British and colonial troops were armed with the state-of-the-art Martini-Henry breech-loading rifle and two 7 pounder artillery pieces as well as a rocket battery. 

James McConnell (1973)
Zulus killed over 1,300 british troops. The Zulu army suffered around a thousand deaths. 
The battle was a decisive victory for the Zulus and caused the defeat of the first British invasion of Zululand. 

Brian Palmer

The British army had received its worst defeat against a technologically inferior indigenous force. 
 Isandlwana resulted in the British becoming much more aggressive leading to a second invasion and the destruction of King Cetshwayo's hopes of a negotiated peace.

The MOSCHOPS

Moschops (meaning calf face) is an extinct genus of therapsid that lived in the Middle Permian, around 255 million years ago. 
Therapsids were proto-mammals and the dominant land animals. 

Five meters long, Moschops was the largest land animal of its time, a herbivore preyed on by other Therapsids. 
Its remains were found in the Karoo region of South Africa. 

Claude Gibney Finch-Davies´ S. African Ornithological Paintings

Yellowbilled Stork (Mycteria ibis)

The Benjamin Gate: S. Africa

Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens