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Homo naledi, Piltdown and a lesson in African prehistory

Gavin Foster by Gavin Foster 19 November 20157 December 2015

Professor Lee Berger and his team of scientists caused a huge stir when they unveiled the skeletal remains of not one, but at least 15 members of a previously unknown hominin species they’d discovered at the Cradle of Mankind. While the team had made no claim to have found the missing link between man and […]

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A parliament that doesn’t respect itself

Christi van der Westhuizen by Christi van der Westhuizen 18 July 201227 July 2012

Dr Mathole Motshekga, ANC chief whip, at the end of June wrote in ANC Today that, “parliament survives on the confidence and respect the public have in it, without (which) its dignity and integrity is eroded”. The context was Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota sticking to his guns that President Jacob Zuma had violated his oath […]

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