Things to find in South Africa

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• Sterkfontein, the Cradle of Humankind Cave
  The most important cave for human origins on Earth. In the dolomite caverns at Sterkfontein, northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa, decades of digging have pulled our own deep ancestors out of the rock, “Mrs Ples” and the...
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• The Cango Caves Cave
  One of the great show caves of the world, in the Swartberg mountains of South Africa, a series of vast chambers of dripstone hung with immense stalagmite columns, some the size of buildings, in Precambrian limestone. Shown to...
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• The Tokoloshe Legend
  Across southern Africa, in Zulu and Xhosa belief, the tokoloshe is a small, hairy, malevolent water-sprite conjured or sent to do harm, to frighten, sicken or kill in the night. The reason so many old beds in the region stand on...
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