Cradle Of Humankind

DREW FORREST looks at the fierce academic controversies ignited by South Africa’s most recent hominin find

The international landmark closed in 2023 after heavy rainfall caused soil movement that threatened safety

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’

Reinventing herself through music, nature and purpose, she steps into her true power

A small agricultural miracle is transforming a community in the Cradle of Humankind

Sewage pollution has harrowing consequences for human health, such as waterborne pathogens like cholera, salmonella, typhoid and hepatitis

The pollution is making residents sick and contaminating rivers and groundwater resources in the Cradle of Humankind

This is an edited extract from Sarah Wild’s new book ‘Human Origins’

Landowners and businesses in the Unesco World Heritage Site are up in arms over municipal sewage pollution

Excessive rainfall last month has caused untreated toxic water from old gold mines to decant into waterways on the West Rand

The first partial skull of a Homo naledi child, which is believed to be 250 000 years old, has been found in the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg

The compact SUV is so at home with its new badge that’s it’s surprising it didn’t happen sooner

Years of pollution in the rivers flowing through the Cradle of Humankind, and Mogale City’s inaction — are a risk to the environment, our health and — cultural status.

We have been omnivores probably since the time of Lucy, our closest ancestor

Palaeoartist John Gurche recreates strikingly realistic models of our ancestors.