Apartheid ‘town planning’ created Orlando 90 years ago. It became a hotbed of black resistance: South Africans celebrate the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising of 1976, planned in Orlando East. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Orlando East, a working class community on the periphery of Johannesburg in South Africa, has turned 90 years old. Orlando was …
‘Sea monsters’ were real millions of years ago. New fossils tell about their rise and fall: Thalassotitan teeth. Nicholas Longrich Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing up to 12 metres long, mosasaurs looked like a …
South Africa in the news: Michael Hooper on last Perth win: ‘That feels like a lifetime ago’: The only blip in that period was a 23-23 draw with South Africa in 2017, when Western Force jerseys dominated the crowd following the controversial axing of the popular franchise. That game was played …: “South Africa” – …