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Thursday, 23 September 2010

Activities at Maropeng Centre on Heritage Day

posted to: Annual Events and Festivals, Gauteng, North West Province
Maropeng

Maropeng

As I am sure you are well aware there is a pub­lic hol­i­day this week – Friday 24 September 2010 is National Heritage Day in South Africa. If you’ve for­got­ten or (shock hor­ror) you don’t know why we cel­eb­rate Heritage Day let me tell you. It is a fairly recent pub­lic hol­i­day which recog­nises all aspects of South African cul­ture. Which I think is some­thing quite spe­cial besides mean­ing that we get the day off.

Now if you’re not already cel­eb­rat­ing the day with a braai – National Braai Day, and you can’t think of any­thing to do, rather than spend the day laz­ing about why not head out to Maropeng in the Cradle of Humankind for their cel­eb­ra­tion where more than 8000 people are expec­ted ... Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Monday, 24 November 2008

The Cradle of Humankind ... right here in South Africa

posted to: Attractions, Gauteng
Maropeng Centre

Maropeng Centre

The Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO world her­it­age site loc­ated approx­im­ately 50kms from the met­ro­polis of Johannesburg, has been the site of many archae­olo­gical and anthro­po­lo­gical finds since the early 20th cen­tury. The most fam­ous of these dis­cov­er­ies was the unearth­ing of “Mrs. Ples” (Australopithecus afric­anus), dat­ing back 2.3 mil­lion years, at the Sterkfontein caves.

This evid­ence of our early ancest­ors promp­ted the nam­ing of the 474 square kilo­meter site, home to more than three dozen other caves bear­ing fos­sil­ized hom­inid remains. Ever since these dis­cov­er­ies first became known, tour­ists have been flock­ing to the area to exper­i­ence a part of our his­tory as a spe­cies, but it was only in 2005 that the South African gov­ern­ment opened the offi­cial vis­it­ors’ centre, Maropeng, which lit­er­ally trans­lates as “the place where we come from”. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues