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/ 30 April 2007

Report: Vredefort heritage site under threat

South African world heritage site, the Vredefort Dome, is under threat, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported Monday. The area around one of the world’s oldest meteorite craters is experiencing major development as tourists and investors flock there. Geologist Frans Waanders said people and even scientists chipped off pieces of rock during visits.

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/ 14 July 2005

Vredefort Dome chosen as World Heritage Site

The Vredefort Dome, spanning the Free State and the North West provinces, has been declared a World Heritage Site, the Department of Arts and Culture said on Thursday, making it the country’s seventh such site. This decision was made earlier in the day at the 29th World Heritage Committee meeting being held in Durban.

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/ 30 September 1999

LARGEST CRATER IN VREDEFORT

A CRATER, believed to have been created by the impact of an asteroid or comet, has been identified in the Vredefort in the Free State as largest and oldest in the world, renowned palaeo-anthropologist Professor Philip Tobias said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Standard Bank sponsored millennium lecture on human evolution at Linder Auditorium in […]

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/ 6 March 1998

Making a stand in Vrededorp

Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS Andr Wessels (not his real name) still remembers the time when Indians were kicked out of Pageview, an area to the west of Braamfontein station that was predominantly Indian at the time. He was jubilant, and so was everyone else he knew. They would shout “Gaan terug [go back], coolies!” as […]