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Scientists are trying to save the elusive Clanwilliam sandfish by transplanting fry from threatened rivers into local farm dams.

Much of the archaeological record in southern Africa occurs as open-air surface scatters of flaked stone artefacts. While historically prominent, these surface artefacts now play a very limited role in reconstructing human behaviour during the Middle and Later Stone Ages. Given suitable caveats, typologies allow links to be developed between open-air surface scatters and temporally controlled excavated samples, the latter often recovered from rock shelters. Among the limitations of this approach...

The sandfish breeds only in a few isolated spots in the Western Cape province. A large rescue effort is now underway to save it.

Next to an ancient and now deceased gum tree on a lonely road over the Pakhuis Pass in the Cederberg is a Boer War grave beside which a sister mourned her brother for 30 years without knowing it was empty.

Five mind, body and soul escapes to try in South Africa.

South Africa’s freshwater fish face extinction 12 Mar 2021 Half a century ago, Clanwilliam sawfins thrived in most of the rivers draining South Africa’s spectacular Cederberg Wilderness Area. Today, this muscular rugged-finned freshwater fish is listed as ‘near threatened’ by the IUCN Red List, with just 11 riverine populations now remaining. Predation by invasive bass on young sawfins is the number one cause behind the recent population declines. (Jeremy Shelton) Sarah Fransman remembe...