What makes South Africa Unique, Part 1
What Makes South Africa Unique: Biodiversity South Africa is unique in many ways, with a natural heritage that is both diverse and exceptional. In this series, we explore different aspects of what makes South Africa distinctive. This first article focuses on one of the country’s most remarkable features: its biodiversity. South Africa is home to […]
Our Ethnic Treasures
The desire to adorn the human body appears to be universal, dating back at least 80 000 years. The oldest known jewellery in the world was discovered at Blombos Cave near Mossel Bay, where early humans adorned themselves with strings of perforated gastropod shells. Across Africa, copper, brass, and silver have been used for personal adornment […]
101 Unique Feautures of Diamonds, Part 1.
Few colourless gems possess the ability to break up white light into the dazzling colours of the rainbow. This ability of colour dispersion is just one of the myriad of attributes that diamonds have. In this, the 1st part of our series on “101 Unique Features of Diamonds”, we cover the first 20 of these […]