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Name | Image | Location | Period | UNESCO data | Description | Ref(s) |
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Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs | Sterkfontein | Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs | 915; 1999, 2005 (extended); iii, vi | The area contains various fossil sites containing traces of human occupation and evolution dating back some 3.3 million years. | [1] | |
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape | Limpopo Province | 11th to 14th centuries | 1099; 2003; ii, iii, iv, v | This open savanna lays at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers. It was the heart of the Mapungubwe Kingdom until the 14th century, when the area was abandoned, leaving untouched remains of palaces and settlements. | [2] | |
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape | Northern Cape | 19th century to present | 1265; 2007; iv, v | This mountainous desert is communally owned and managed. It sustains the semi-nomadic pastoral livelihood of the Namaqua people, including seasonal migrations that have persisted for two millennia. | [3] | |
Robben Island | Table Bay | 17th to 20th centuries | 916; 1999; iii, iv | Between the 17th and 20th century, the island was used as a prison, including for political prisoners, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups (leper colony), and a military base. | [4] | |
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas | Western Cape, Eastern Cape | N/A | 1007; 2004; ix, x | The site consists of eight protected areas that are among the richest in plant life worldwide, containing nearly 20% of Africa's total flora. Its scientific value is demonstrated by the presence of fire and radiation adaptivity in plants and seed dispersal by insects. | [5] | |
iSimangaliso Wetland Park | KwaZulu-Natal | N/A | 914; 1999; vii, ix, x | The park features a variety of landforms, including coral reefs, long sandy beaches, coastal dunes, lake systems, swamps, and reed and papyrus wetland, caused by fluvial, marine and aeolian processes. This has resulted in an exceptional species diversity. | [6] | |
Vredefort Dome | Vredefort | Paleoproterozoic era | 1162; 2005; viii | The crater, with a diameter of Vorlage:Convert, is the largest, oldest and most deeply eroded astrobleme found on Earth, dating back more than 2 billion years. | [7] | |
uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park | KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho | 2000 B.C. | 985; 2000; i, iii, vii, x | The park features soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, golden sandstone ramparts, rolling high-altitude grasslands, pristine steep-sided river valleys and rocky gorges. | [8] | |
Section 27 of the National Heritage Resources Act (NHRA) of South Africa provides for places of historic or cultural importance to be designated National heritage sites.[9] This came into effect with the introduction of the Act on 1 April 2000, when all former national monuments declared by the former National Monuments Council and its predecessors became provincial heritage sites as provided for in Section 58 of the Act.[10]
Both national and provincial heritage sites are protected under the terms of Section 27 of the NHRA, and a permit is required to work on them. National heritage sites are declared and administered by the national heritage resources authority, SAHRA; provincial heritage sites fall within the domain of the various provincial heritage resources authorities.
The SAHRA logo is used to mark national heritage sites.
Currently proclaimed national heritage sites are
- Bolts Farm[11]
- Boschendal[12]
- Cape Winelands Cultural Landscape[13]
- Coopers Cave[14]
- Drimolen[15]
- Charlotte Maxeke Grave [16]
- Gladysvale[17]
- Gondolin, Broederstroom[18]
- Kaditshwene Cultural landscape[19]
- Kromdraai fossil site[20]
- Makapans Valley and Limeworks at Makapansgat[21]
- Motsetsi[22]
- Mapungubwe[23]
- Non Pareille[24]
- Plovers Lake[25]
- Robben Island[26]
- Sarah Baartman Site[27]
- SAS Pietermaritzburg[28] [29]
- Sterkfontein caves[30]
- Swartkrans Palaeontological Site[31]
- Victor Verster Prison (Madiba House)[32]
- Voortrekker Monument[33]
- Wonderwerk Cave[34] [35]