2021 - Barberton Geotrail Education Tour - Wits University :

11 May 2021 - Gillian Drennan
This story begins in 2019 when the National Department of Tourism first offered to sponsor a multi-university geology trip to the newly inscribed Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains World Heritage Site (2018). The objective was to promote domestic tourism and geotourism by exposing geology students and lecturers to the Barberton Makhonjwa Geotrail (2014), which is currently the only developed geological trail transecting the core of the Barberton Greenstone Belt. Regrettably, the trip could not take place in 2019 and was rescheduled for early 2020...but then came COVID, so once again, this initiative had to be postponed.
Thanks to the improved COVID SA statistics, on 29

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