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Makapans Valley - World Heritage
Site
Makapans Valley is one of only two Stone Age sites in the world
that offered up an unbroken sequence of artefacts from the Earlier Stone
Age to the Later Stone Age. One of the historic caves in Limpopo, the Cave
of Gwasa, later (1854) became known as Makapan's Cave, after the great
chief Makapan who with several thousand members of the Kekana chiefdom by
the Voortrekkers following an attack on a party of trekboers at
Moorddrift.
Makapans Valley was declared part of the Cradle of
Humankind World Heritage Site in 2005, and is about 300 km (185 mi) from
Sterkfontein, near Mokopane in Limpopo Province. It is one of 15 sites
that make up the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.
Visits to
the fascinating Makapan's Valley must be arranged in advance.
http://www.golimpopo.com/activity-detail_makapans-caves_73.html
World Heritage Sites
World Heritage
Sites are declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation (Unesco) to recognise and preserve outstanding
places of cultural and natural heritage. World Heritage Sites include
places like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Pyramids in Egypt,
the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal in India. The Cradle of
Humankind was declared a World Heritage Site in 1999 specifically because
of its contribution to our knowledge about the birth of
humankind.
Other World Heritage Sites in South Africa:
. Robben
Island (1999)
. Cape Floral Region (2004)
. Greater St
Lucia Wetland Park (1999)
. Cradle of Humankind, including
Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and environs (1999); and Taung and
Makapans Valley in Limpopo Province (2005)
. uKhahlamba/Drakensberg Park (2000)
. Mapungubwe
Cultural Landscape (2003)
. Vredefort Dome
(2005).
The
Pedi
The Pedi's are Bantu-speaking people living in Limpopo Province,
South Africa. The Pedi make up the major group of the Northern Sotho
ethnolinguistic cluster of peoples, who numbered about 3 700 000 in the
late 20th century. Their traditional territory, known as Bopedi, is
located between the Olifants and Steelpoort rivers.
Signs of the Pedi
of earlier times are found in the hilltops of the Waterberg, particularly
in the area near the Palala River.
Heritage Month
In
September South Africans celebrate Heritage Month, a month-long
opportunity to celebrate their rich and diverse cultural heritage.
Heritage Day is one of South Africa's newly created public holidays
and "its significance rests in recognising aspects of South African
culture which are both tangible and difficult to pin down: creative
expression, our historical inheritance, language, the food we eat as well
as the land in which we live.
"Within a broader social and political context, the day's events are a powerful agent for promulgating a South African identity, fostering reconciliation and promoting the notion that variety is a national asset as opposed to igniting conflict.
"Heritage
has defined as 'that which we inherit: the sum total of Wildlife and scenic
parks, sites of scientific or historical importance, national monuments,
historic buildings, works of art, literature and music, oral traditions
and museum collections together with their documentation'."
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