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Top price for Tretchi painting
An art auction in May 2008 saw a new record price set for a painting by Russian-born Vladimir Tretchikoff, who lived in South Africa for most of his life.
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South African street art wired for success
South African wire art is a fast-growing sector of the local creative industry, and from colourful chameleons to rampaging rhinos, there are no limits to the imagination of those talented individuals.
Help spot Kruger’s wild dogs
Kruger National Park visitors have been urged to report any African wild dogs they come across to help the Endangered Wildlife Trust with a research project into South Africa's most endangered carnivore.
New ‘living fossil’ joins coelacanth
A PhD student from Johannesburg's Wits University has uncovered a 360-year-old fossil of a small boneless fish species still found swimming, largely unchanged, in today's waters - again proving that South Africa is a rich repository of evidence of the evolution of life on earth.
Watching the right whale
Every year southern right whales migrate from their icy feeding grounds off Antarctica to warmer climates, reaching South Africa in June. Then the coastal waters teem with the giant animals, mating, calving and rearing their young - and giving whale-watchers spectacular displays of raw power and elegant water acrobatics.
The abundant Nguni herds
South Africa's indigenous Nguni cattle are possibly the most beautiful cattle in the world, with their variously patterned and multicoloured hides everywhere in demand. Their beauty, and the lore and terminology associated with them, is celebrated in the coffee table book The Abundant Herds.
Rand Show: family fun, shop fest
The Rand Show has been hailed as the most consistently successful consumer exhibition in Africa. The organisers reckon up to half a million people will turn up for this year's event - and they've lined up a stunning range of entertainment and shopping opportunities for visitors.
Bringing back the quagga
Extinction is forever - or is it? On 12 August 1883 the last living quagga died at the Amsterdam zoo, and the world believed this unusual type of zebra had gone the way of the dodo. But for the last 20 years a team of South Africans have been working to bring the beast back from the dead, with the third generation of specially bred foals now being born.