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iPod South Africa Style

By Renee Blodgett on December 6, 2008 in Africa, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa

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iPod South African Style. This guy passed me in the Soweto Mall yesterday. How could I pass this up?...

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Goin’ Down Down: In South Africa Bloggers Mine Gold

By Mona Gable on December 6, 2008 in Africa, Botswana, Lodging, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe

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So I'm crawling on my hands and knees through a space about the size of a sewer drain. It's about 105 degrees and hot as Hades and so dark I think I might pass out...

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Cradle of Mankind’s Grave Lessons

By John Gartner on December 6, 2008 in Africa, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa

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Friday afternoon's stop on the South African endless bus/plane tour was in the area humbly named "The Cradle of Mankind." Sterkfontein Caves in Gauteng's fossilized remains are to paleontologists as Hollywood is to the paparazzi...

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!Khwa ttu: Sustainable Cultural Preservation

By David Sasaki on December 5, 2008 in Africa, Lodging, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa, Videos

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The surprise highlight of this trip for me so far hasn’t been a helicopter flight, luxury resort, or journey down three and half kilometers to the world’s deepest mine. No, what has impressed me the...

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Game On at Plumari Conservation Reserve

By John Gartner on December 5, 2008 in Africa, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa

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I've never experienced anything quite like sharing a sunrise with the large game animals of Africa. Riding in an open air Jeep, we bounced along for three hours and encountered herds of giraffe, kudu (nice...

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Children Dance in the Richtersveld

By Renee Blodgett on December 5, 2008 in Africa, All Countries, Photos, South Africa

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Take a look at South Africa's Richtersveld as seen through the eyes of Nama children, who danced for us on the banks of the Orange River, along the Namibian border. It was followed by a picnic...

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South Africa’s Joule Electric Car

By David Sasaki on December 5, 2008 in Africa, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa

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Optimal Energy CEO Kobus Meiring Presenting the Joule Electric Car Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary which shows the roles of American automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the US government in stopping...

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America Gives South Africa Tourism Love

By Ray Lewis on December 4, 2008 in Africa, North America, Photos, South Africa, Southern Africa, USA, Videos

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The United States has overtaken Germany as the second-biggest market for South African tourism, according to Wendy Tiou, Global Manager of Communications for South Africa Tourism.  (The U.K. is number one, of course). We spoke over...

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