Former and current members of the air force give personal insights into the history of the SAAF.
A guest farm hidden in the Groot Marico valley provides nature Âactivities or, best of all, an excuse to do nothing.
The bestselling <i>Earth’s Children</i> series has come to an end. <b>Maureen Brady</b> speaks to the author, Jean M Auel.
<b>Maureen Brady</b> reviews <i>Caves of the Ape-men:South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site</i>
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/ 24 September 2008
Maureen Brady reviews a fascinating volume about the history of the Cradle of Humankind.
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/ 8 February 2008
Many of us harbour a fascination with maps, a legacy of childhood reading, writes Maureen Brady.
Revisit the places and faces of local TV travel show <i>Going Nowhere Slowly</i> in Ashley Dowds’s new book, writes Maureen Brady.
World Environment Day was first held in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. On the same day, the General Assembly adopted a resolution to create a global environmental programme.
"Before the start of the summer rainy season, the Klaserie river is more a lush reed bed than a body of moving water, although it retains a number of permanent pools. Early one overcast morning, I had the privilege of being the sole companion of wilderness guide Alan McSmith on a long, meandering walk through the dry Klaserie bush", writes Maureen Brady.
Some places in the world make one wish, if there’s a heaven, it could be like this. <i>Earthyear</i> samples the delights of Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve and Retreat in the Cederberg. The whole of the Cederberg has been declared a world heritage site, not only because of its wealth of flora and fauna but also for the thousands of rock art sites created by long-extinct Bushman artists.