Mapungubwe is set hard against the northern border of South Africa, joining Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is an open, expansive savannah landscape at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers.

Johannesburg - In what is considered the largest land claim in the history of South Africa, Mapungubwe - a world heritage site - as well as 56 farms in the far north of Limpopo, have been awarded to ...

University of Pretoria provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. For more than two decades the Mapungubwe Collection has been on public display at the University of Pretoria. The world ...

Travelling to Mapungubwe is like embarking on a journey through time itself. Nestled in hot and dry northwest of South Africa, this ancient land is steeped in heritage, culture and history. As I set ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the University of Pretoria. Most developing countries face acute tensions between socio-economic ...

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Even in places like Europe, where history is right around every corner, it is not easy to imagine, standing outside a towering cathedral, what life must have been like for the occupants of the city in ...

The United Nations has voiced its concern over a coal mine adjacent to the Mapungubwe heritage site in Limpopo, the Sunday Independent reported. Part of this ancient landscape is protected within the ...

Mapungubwe is a world heritage site and national park located on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. From about 1000 AD the settlement there developed into a major African state ...

Mapungubwe National Park’s listing as a World Heritage Site hangs in the balance after the department of environmental affairs gave the go-ahead this week for a controversial coal mine on its border.

Paleodemographic studies have seldom been attempted in sub-Saharan Africa. The Mapungubwe complex of sites in northern Transvaal (A. D. 970-1200) has yielded enough skeletal material to warrant such ...