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 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 ...

The World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies were alerted through press reports to the granting in February 2010 of a coal mining permit to an Australian company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoA), in an ...

What happens to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Mapungubwe National Park is the perfect place to introspect in peace. Your reverie will however be broken perhaps by the trumpeting of an elephant, ...

One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe in Limpopo province was the centre of the largest kingdom in the subcontinent, where a highly sophisticated people traded gold and ivory with China, India and Egypt.

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 ...

It was a weekend of cultural immersion as Lerato Morotolo travelled to Mapungubwe in Limpopo and met with the descendants of southern Africa's famous precolonial kingdom. The nine-hour trip in the ...

The magic of history gets displaced by a failed attempt at mixing modern times with tradition, amid litter and plastic bottles strewn about the site. In this time of “take back the land”, the story of ...

Mapungubwe is located on the banks of the Limpopo River at a point where the international borders of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana intersect. Popular because of its scenic landscapes and ...

South Africa’s most well-known Iron Age site, Mapungubwe in Limpopo, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco on Thursday. Mapungubwe was among 24 sites inscribed in the United Nations Education, ...

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 2003, is caught in this tension. An area of about 28,000 hectares, it lies near the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. It may be small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, but even now—nearly 800 years after it was hidden from ...