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Stone tools from a cave on South Africa's coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age
The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...
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Older Than You Think—The Mysterious Megaliths Hidden in Africa
Is Adam’s Calendar the oldest manmade structure on Earth—or a pile of stones hyped up by ancient alien fans? We dig into ...
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In South Africa, Trump’s false claims spark a renewed racial reckoning
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — False claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday that South Africa’s Black majority is trying to wipe out White Afrikaners have roiled ...
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Musk claimed Starlink isn't allowed to operate in South Africa because he's not Black. Here's what we know
On March 7, 2025, Elon Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who owns the space aeronautics company SpaceX and the social media platform X, claimed in a post that Starlink, the satellite ...
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South Africa’s chief rabbi rejects refugee program for Afrikaners
A vocal critic of the South African government, Goldstein backed Trump’s opposition to South Africa for its cooperation with Iran and its new land expropriation law. (JTA) — When Donald Trump ...
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Finger bone analysis uncovers how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands
Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Research led by Samar Syeda, postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of ...
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South Africa’s ‘cradle of humankind’ caves reopen to public, reveals ancient human artifacts
South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to engage with live scientific research. Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep ...
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Modeling climate change impact on dryland wheat production for increased crop yield in the Free State, South Africa, using GCM projections and the DSSAT model
Introduction: The impact of climate change on food production in South Africa is likely to increase due ... and dryland across the Free State (green shading), and a map of the Free State showing the ...
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30 Ancient Maps That We’d Never Seen Before
While there are many interesting aspects of this ancient map design, one of the biggest is that it is the first to use longitude and latitude lines. The map illustrates three main continents, Europe, ...
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Southern Africa: Ancient Stone Walls and Power - What Data Science Tools Can Reveal in African Archaeology
In both ancient and modern ... that uses software and data to map, analyse and manage geographic information. But this method is still underutilised in Africa. It has only recently been taken ...
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South Africa: The aftermath of land reforms
Land reform law met with questions Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa, with most farmland still being owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid.Some ...