The Big Five: Elephant

Elephants require great tracts of land to roam in order to get their daily diet of about 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of grass, leaves, and twigs, and they are increasingly coming into conflict with people in the competition for land.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron, born in Benoni, won the best actress Oscar 2004 for Monster. She has just been sued for $20 million for wearing a competitor's watch. Today these famous personalities are paid huge amounts to wear clothing and jewelry.

She is probably this generation's most famous South African personality besides Mandela and Tutu of the previous generation.

Dr. Barnard

In 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard put Cape Town on the medical map when he performed the world's first heart transplant on Louis Washkansky who succumbed to pneumnia after 18 days.

Madiba

South Africa is fortunate to have a leader of the caliber of Nelson Mandela, affectionately called "Madiba."
He brings a brand of leadership that is not known in the modern world. His charisma captures the hearts of all. Recently he celebrated his 90th birthday, an elder amongst elders.

Kuruman

The Kuruman Caves have some bushman paintings but the most amazing part is the explanation of humans using fire described in the adjoining museum.

It shows when Europe used fire. It then shows how much earlier China used fire. Then it showed the earlier, much earlier time when fire was used in this cave. As you look at the cave you can see the soot on the walls and roof and as you look at the excavation you can see the layers and layers of soot that provide the proof of fire being used through the eons. When you read a myth about how fire was discovered or provided by the Gods, this is where that myth took place.