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July 12, 2012
Swaziland – from sugarcane to protected landscape
When most people think of Swaziland, they probably think of candle factories or of a monarchy thats always in the news for Mugabian reasons, either buying a new private plane or throwing another lavish party. It's a real pity that the monarch's glamourous lifestyle dominates news from Swaziland. No ...
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May 17, 2012
On Mozambique’s borders and the elephants that want to break them down
I recently read that Frank Zappa once said 'You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.' Mozambique definitely does not have nuclear weapons, a great football t ...
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March 14, 2012
Out – lived the dinosaurs, but will they out-live us?
Of all things living on the planet cycads are the most endangered organisms. Surely, if nothing else, that should alarm the Houghton Botanical Society? These odd- shaped, ancient plants, which adorn so many gardens in well-to-do suburbs all over the country, were once the choice snacks of Diplodocus ...
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November 10, 2011
Return To Mirkwood Forest
Despite what most people in New Zealand may tell you, Tolkien’s images of Middle Earth, so beautifully depicted in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, weren’t shaped on South Island, but inspired by the mysterious forests of Hogsback in the Eastern Cape.
It was from here that his son, a comma ...
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