The number of independent schools is on the increase. SEVEN percent of South Africa’s schools are private, catering for less than 5% of the nation’s schoolgoers. They claim, however, to be making a national educational contribution out of proportion to the sector’s size. The number of independent schools registered with the Department of Education quadrupled […]

Dramatic new finds at the Cradle of Humankind at Sterkfontein near Krugersdorp might change well- established ideas about human evolution, says one of the most prominent palaeoanthropologists. A team has been laboriously excavating the Little Foot skeleton since 1997.

Excavating in the dark Silberberg Grotto at Sterkfontein, millimetre by millimetre, year after year, to expose, identify and analyse the fragile bones of the ancient Little Foot skeleton embedded in the concrete-hard breccia is daunting work.