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Sword killer accused’s case postponed - Sep 26, 2008 The Times,Harmse was being examined by the superintendent of Sterkfontein Hospital, state-appointed psychiatrists from Johannesburg and a Doctor Schutte from Where did it all begin? - Sep 23, 2008 Mail & Guardian Online,Mention Sterkfontein and many people will know that it is the site of the discovery of hominid fossils in the so-called "Cradle of Humankind". Pollution threatens Cradle of Humankind - Aug 30, 2008 Independent Online,...historic mining operations could cause irreversible damage to the ancient hominid fossils of the Cradle of Humankind, including the Sterkfontein Caves. Coal exploration moves rapidly towards production - Sep 5, 2008 Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,Good progress has also been made at Keaton Energy’s third project, Sterkfontein, in the Highveld coalfield. Some 132 holes have been drilled, In the grip of 'Satan' - Aug 30, 2008 Independent Online,He will spend a month at Sterkfontein Hospital under the observation of three psychiatrists and a psychologist. Bredenkamp had his 12-year-old son abducted Edwin Cameron - Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal - Aug 29, 2008 The Times,Jozi: Visiting the Origins Centre, Wits University; the superbly upgraded Sterkfontein Caves where the guides make the experience sassy and interesting. South Africa: Professor Carefully Storms the Fortress of the Past - Aug 1, 2008 AllAfrica.com,He came across it while searching through a box of fossil bovid fragments that had been found at Sterkfontein, north-west of Johannesburg, in the 1970s and Mentally-ill father wants his children back! - Jul 18, 2008 Vaal Weekly,Makgalemele spent eight years at Sterkfontein, a medical facility dedicated to mental patients. He says that he lost his wife and eldest child in a car Keaton granted coal prospecting rights in KZN - Jul 22, 2008 Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,...additional to its existing 4 009 ha Sterkfontein project in the Highveld coal field, its 1 650 ha Delmas project in the Witbank coal field, TourismROI provides a tourism management and investment solution ... - Aug 13, 2008 Travel Daily News International,...orientation centres for visitors to the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and environs. What to do in Joburg - Jul 19, 2008 iAfrica.com,The Sterkfontein (011 956 6342) and Wonder Caves (011 957 0106) are open to the public and you can go on a guided tour for R40 (adults) or R20 (children). A society where discrimination has no place - 25 Apr 2008 Thought Leader,...of recounting the story of the strictly religious Jewish youngster from the UK who a few years back accompanied me on a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves. Butcher's knife suspect sent for evaluation - Mar 26, 2008 Independent Online,Prosecutor M Morake told the court that a bed had become available at Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital, after Avalone was initially placed 95th on the list Keaton Energy sets date for JSE listing - Apr 14, 2008 Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,The newcomer, which owns two advanced development projects, Delmas and Sterkfontein, in South Africa's coal-rich Mpumalanga province, said that it planned Newcomer Keaton firms coal as it heads for April JSE listing - Apr 3, 2008 Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,This follows completion of extensive drilling programmes on the Delmas and Sterkfontein project areas in 2007. MD Miller says the resource, comprising 171 Gold will bust $1000 again - Apr 15, 2008 Mining MX,...mineable coal resource of 252.6 million tonnes for its two advanced development projects, Delmas and Sterkfontein, in coal-rich Mpumalanga province. Keaton brings 206mt coal resource to JSE - Mar 27, 2008 Mining MX,The Delmas project has a resource of 171.5 million tonnes, of which the measured is 60 million tonnes, and the Sterkfontein deposit near Bethal has 34.8 Keaton Energy announces 206 mt resource base - Mar 27, 2008 Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,The Delmas project’s resource was estimated at 171,5-million tons, and the Sterkfontein project, near Bethal, had a resource of 34,8-million tons, Septic menace from on high - Apr 24, 2008 Noseweek,...the huge caves in the cliff face below, which are significant for spelunkers – they were exploited as show caves a la Cango and Sterkfontein until 1990. New coal listing - Apr 21, 2008 Business Day,DAVID WILLIAMS: Let’s look at the context - you talk about opportunities identified - you have the two projects Delmas and Sterkfontein already - where does Modern figures make their mark on Maropeng - Apr 1, 2008 Joburg,Part of the site is home to the Sterkfontein Caves, the oldest and most continuous palaentological dig in the world. It is here that the famous pre-human Trigger-happy officer denies incident - Feb 20, 2008 Vaal Weekly,Constable Mohale Madibo who appeared in court for allegedly shooting and killing his captain has been referred to the Sterkfontein Mental Hospital for Cop does not remember killing - Feb 17, 2008 Sowetan,Virgill Jansen that his client could not remember what happened and asked that he be referred Sterkfontein Mental Hospital for mental observation. Dog lives after mouth-to-mouth - Jan 28, 2008 News24,He fell from the wall of a dam on a neighbouring farm, Sterkfontein, into a puddle of stagnant water next to the dam and probably hit his head on something. Mental twist in drug abusers’ murder trial - Jan 29, 2008 Legalbrief (subscription),He was sent to court with a report that he was unfit to stand trial for car theft, and had to be returned to Sterkfontein Hospital. Powerless people push off for Perth - Jan 29, 2008 Moneyweb,Eskom's antics have brought us back to the lifestyle of the Australopithecus of myth in the nearby Sterkfontein caves. We are being asked to save More than half of SA dams not safety compliant - Feb 6, 2008 Mail & Guardian Online,...dams were among those in need of repair. the 2,6-billion cubic metre Sterkfontein Dam, south of Harrismith, which requires only "very minor repairs . South Africa: Museum Allows Public to View 'Mrs Ples' - Nov 8, 2007 AllAfrica.com,The cranium was discovered at Sterkfontein near Johannesburg at the Cradle of Humankind on 18 April 1947. The discovery was made by Dr Robert Broom of the Full Text - Nov 29, 2007 Science Magazine (subscription)The A. africanus accumulation from Sterkfontein member 4 may also be the product of predator behavior, but this conclusion is less certain than for the Mrs Ples, a very OAP who may be a he - Nov 9, 2007 Telegraph.co.uk,An Australopithecus africanus, "Mrs Ples" was found in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves 60 years ago, but according to new findings is now believed to be The life of a brute - Nov 24, 2007 The Times,In 1981, when he was 16, Beuthin was, according to court papers, diagnosed a psychopath by a doctor at Sterkfontein Hospital. Joburg running out of drugs - Nov 21, 2007 Independent Online,And in Edenvale, a 19-year-old student's throat was slit last December, allegedly by a 21-year-old man weeks after he had been released from Sterkfontein World Heritage Vines Under Three Suns Vineyards as Cultural Landscapes - Nov 25, 2007 South African Wine News,Drakensberg, Saint Lucia, Sterkfontein, Richtersveld and Robben Island – already ranked as a Unesco World Heritage (see whc.unesco.org). Virtual brain of Mrs Ples holds surprises - Nov 8, 2007 Independent Online,It is part of a display celebrating the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Mrs. Ples in 1947 at Sterkfontein by Dr Robert Broom. The original skull of Mrs Full Text - Nov 15, 2007 Science Magazine (subscription)No knuckle-walking features are evident in the hominin hand bones from South Turkwel (15) or Sterkfontein (stw-573) (16). Another key knuckle-walking Is that really you, Mrs Ples? - Oct 23, 2007 Independent Online,Broom discovered the skull, belonging to the species Australopithecus africanus - a distant human relative - at Sterkfontein. Museum director Dr Francis Newcomer Keaton plans 2-5mtpa coal output - Oct 24, 2007 Mining MX,Keaton wants to have measured resources ahead of the listing and the Sterkfontein property near Bethal must be transferred to the company from the Cradle to the grave - Oct 11, 2007 iAfrica.com,When I mentioned to my wife that we were going to visit the Sterkfontein caves, the audible groan was almost enough to make me turn the car around and head Feldman @ the theatre - Oct 18, 2007 ArtslinkNews,Inspired by a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves, Sampson contemplates a South African future for his offspring – a white daughter and an adoptive black son Robin Hood - Oct 21, 2007 ArtslinkNews,...a pair of legs that have officially been designated a World Heritage Site (at least they attract three times more visitors than the Sterkfontein Caves. More aping about - Oct 4, 2007 Citizen,Inspired by a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves, Sampson contemplates a South African future for his kids by looking back at the very origins of the human Keaton Seeks Seed Capital - Oct 25, 2007 AllAfrica.com,Preconditions to its listing were first, to prove a measured mineral resource on its Delmas and Sterkfontein properties, and second, to get necessary title Theatre goes to the dogs for the hilarious Mark Sampson - Oct 18, 2007 The Times,If he’s just a human being from Sterkfontein who’s come home, so are we all. Even strange stretched theatah ladies with little white dogs called Lola. Paedophile: judges decision stuns gallery - Oct 5, 2007 Independent Online,In asking the court to declare Joubert a dangerous criminal, senior psychiatrist at Sterkfontein Hospital Dr Bridget Armstrong had earlier in the trial showbuzz by Christina Kennedy - Oct 19, 2007 ArtslinkNews,...million years of evolutionary history, starting out symbolically in Cape Town and ending at the Sterkfontein Caves, known as the Cradle of Humankind. Rapist hopes for shorter term - Oct 9, 2007 Citizen,Dr Bridget Armstrong, head of Sterkfontein Hospital’s forensic unit, told the court two weeks ago that Mkhwanazi was “able to stop himself�, and that there Wits turns 85 today - Oct 4, 2007 Joburg,Further afield Wits acquired the farm Sterkfontein near the Magaliesberg in the 1960s. In 1968 the neighbouring farm, Swartkrans, also a rich source of Who is an African? - 20 Aug 2007 Independent Online,The Sterkfontein caves have evidence of pre-modern humans, but modern man comes from east Africa." The Khoi/San moved here from east Africa and, Professor Ron Clarke Lecture - Aug 15, 2007 ArtslinkNews,The Sterkfontein caves of South Africa have preserved a long record of such ancestry, including hundreds of fossil bones of early hominids, Hubby’s ex-lover ‘threatens’ Lesley’s mom - Aug 12, 2007 Sunday Times,Phele has been referred to Sterkfontein Hospital for psychiatric observation. Mhlanga said Lesley’s father came to her place of work, demanding to see his Clarke is slowly unearthing humanity's origins Oct 27, 2006 Working in difficult conditions deep in the bowels of Sterkfontein Cave, Professor Ron Clarke and his assistants are painstakingly unearthing the full skeleton ... - Joburg, Three million year human skeleton discovered in SA Oct 24, 2006 ...high levels of activity. The cave at Sterkfontein has been the home of the fossil for nearly 3.3 million years. lt is the first ... - AND, Three million old human skeleton discovered in SA Oct 24, 2006 ...significantly marked by high levels of activity. The cave at Sterkfontein has been the home of the fossil for nearly 3.3 million years. - AND, Child abuser's light sentence raises anger Nov 8, 2006 The incidents happened at Van Tonder's house, his farm and the Sterkfontein Dam over a nine year period. He was also sentenced to house arrest for 36 months. ... - SABC News, Time-travelling in the Cape Nov 14, 2006 While the cradle of humankind complex near Sterkfontein has done much to highlight South Africa’s unique position on the map of human prehistory, the fact is ... - iAfrica.com, Dine in style with the hominids Mar 30, 2006 Estate. Forum Homini is part of the estate. Sterkfontein Caves (where for example, Mrs. Ples and Little Foot were found). Wonder ... Independent Online, Actress's attacker goes to mental home Mar 16, 2006 Daniel Mokoena, Chibi's former boyfriend, had his case postponed to June 19 by the Protea magistrates' court to allow Sterkfontein Hospital to allocate him a ... Sunday Times, Mental hospitals under-staffed - DA Mar 27, 2006 The Cullinan Care Centre had the highest vacancy rate of 35 percent, followed by Sterkfontein hospital with 32 percent, Tara Hospital with 30 percent and ... iAfrica.com, Missing Links Mar 14, 2006 But Mark Sampson, a trained biologist, actually brings his scientific mind into the realm of stand-up comedy using a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves as a ... Tonight, Mental hospitals 'understaffed' Mar 27, 2006 The Cullinan Care Centre had the highest vacancy rate of 35%, followed by Sterkfontein hospital with 32%, Tara Hospital with 30% and Weskoppies hospital with 11 ... News24, Maropeng - retreat to a link from the past Mar 12, 2006 By Arja Salafranca. I first visited the Sterkfontein Caves 10 years ago. I recall ... attain. Sterkfontein Caves: 011-956-6342. Maropeng ... Independent Online, Lammergeier action plan Mar 11, 2006 A group of 30 vulture specialists from KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Free State, Lesotho and Ethiopia met this week at the Sterkfontein Dam in the Free State to ... Sunday Tribune (subscription), Boardwalk - March 7, 2006 Mar 7, 2006 ...evolution. The show was inspired by his visit to the Sterkfontein caves and six months' research into evolutionary theories. Sampson ... Tonight, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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