Our series on our World Heritage Sites continues with Mapungubwe in Limpopo. Bridget Hilton-Barber offers the lowdown on how to make your stay one to remember Mapungubwe From Joburg, take the N1 to ...

The lodge is the ideal place to explore Mapungubwe National Park, if you don’t like the self-catering or camping options which are all there is in the park itself. The lodge is the ideal place to ...

South African National Parks (sanparks) is challenging an application for a R3 trillion mining operation to be established at the entrance to the Mapungubwe World Heritage site. SANParks spokesperson ...

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 2003, is caught in this tension. An area of about 28,000 hectares, it lies near the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers ...

The United Nations has voiced its concern over a coal mine adjacent to the Mapungubwe heritage site in Limpopo, the Sunday Independent reported. Part of this ancient landscape is protected within the ...

The government has reversed its tough stance and agreed that Australian-listed miner Coal of Africa can proceed with the Vele coal mine, seven kilometres from the Mapungubwe world heritage site. The ...

A coalition of civil society organisations will lodge an appeal against the granting of a water-use license to a company aiming to establish a colliery near the Mapungubwe National Park in northern ...

Most developing countries face acute tensions between socio-economic development and environmental protection. Any opposition to proposed development, on environmental or heritage grounds, is seen as ...

Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the University of Pretoria. Most developing countries face acute tensions between socio-economic ...