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Grahamstown in the news: “Africans must throw out boxes”

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“Africans must throw out boxes”: Lowell Scarr, one of the 50 innovators at AIS 2018, has been studying and working in the insect industry, and is currently living in Grahamstown in South Africa. His innovation, Nambu, proposes a solution by bridging challenges in the Agriculture and Food …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Not so fishy: Africa’s first ever fish-with-legs discovered: The Waterloo Farm fossil site was revealed in 1985 after controlled rock-cutting by the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) along the N2 highway south of Grahamstown. This cutting exposed dark grey mudstones of the Witpoort Formation that …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Tetrapod fossil discovery in S. Africa dispels tropical myth: Both were found in black shale at the Waterloo Farm roadcut, which was exposed during controlled explosions along the N2 highway between Grahamstown and the Fish River in 2016. The early tetrapods which are originated from the fishes at the time of the …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

SA fossils rewrite early history of life on land: Scientists found them at the Waterloo Farm that is Grahamstown, South Africa. This cutting exposed dark grey mudstones of the Witpoort Formation that represent an ancient environment of a brackish, tidal river estuary that contain abundant fossils of …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Announcing 2018 Fashion Journalism Scholarship Winner: Adriana Georgiades: She has a “hard news” background, and graduated on the dean’s list from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies with honors in English literature. While at Rhodes, Georgiades …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE DE LUNE By Terence McNally Comes to Alexander Upstairs: You’re Perfect Now Change” directed by Paul Griffith which earned her a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the Grahamstown Festival. She embraced playing damaged and destructive Amy in “Tape” directed by Gabriella Pinto which ran in various theatres due to …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

South African fossils cast doubt over tropical origin of our four-legged aquatic ancestors: For the past 20 years, I’ve been carefully flaking through blocks of rock rescued from a fossil site called Waterloo Farm near Grahamstown in South Africa. I worked on the site in the mid 1990s and was intent on continuing research there. However …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

EC game auction raises R3.3m with 10% going to conservation: Willowmore nature reserve in Baviaanskloof sold 20 buffaloes, Great Fish River outside Grahamstown sold 24 buffaloes, 16 eland, 10 kudus, 22 plains zebras and six hartebeest. Mpofu Game Reserve from Fort Beaufort sold 10 buffaloes and 20 plains zebra.
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

South Africa: Biography of an Ancestral River – a Call to Arms Against Exploitation in South Africa: The book’s timely publication may draw attention to how South Africans choose to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Grahamstown (1819) and the arrival of the main body of settlers the following year. Cock calls the battle “a turning point in …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

5 countries to participate in Pro Helvetia Johannesburg’s 2018 Winter Programme: With a strong presence at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, Pro Helvetia’s Winter Programme makes visible a distinguished track record of engagement in the Southern African region with an array of projects characterised by both challenge and surprise.
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

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