Dolls & bugs
Girls should not be deprived of interacting with nature and being exposed to fieldsports, writes Abré J Steyn.
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The Falls Backpackers and Adventures
In 2004 Adriaan Badenhorst and Angela Metcalf quit their jobs as guides on the Orange River and moved to an abandoned trading station near Maclear in the Eastern Cape to start their own adventure company – The Falls Backpackers and Adventures. Mike Burgess recently visited the now-married couple to find out why kayaking the unique rivers of the north-eastern Cape has captivated them.
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Cutting tools- Mankind ultimate tool
Cutting tools, especially knives, are mankind’s ultimate tool, writes Abré J Steyn. This week he looks at various folding knives, including one of his favourites – Leatherman’s Klamath.
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Flight to the lakes
Kenya is iconic wildlife territory, place of the annual wildebeest migration and the mighty Great Rift Valley. Millions of migratory flamingoes find sanctuary in the Rift Valley lakes. Keri Harvey visited Lake Nakuru to experience this phenomenon first-hand.
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Catch & release - alive!
As the tigerfish is our premier inland gamefish and because its numbers are dwindling, Abré J Steyn feels strongly about the art of catch-and-release. But with this fish, successful release is no easy feat.
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Do-it-yourself strawbale building
After discussing the advantages of strawbale buildings in a previous issue, Abré J Steyn gives tips on how to construct one.
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The old professor, Ben Engelbrecht
Careful observation and experimentation made theology professor Ben Engelbrecht an expert lure fisherman at a time when nobody knew very much about the art, writes Abré J Steyn.
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Hush!
Sound always carries a message in the animal kingdom and the design of an animal's ear tells us something about its habitat, writes Abré J Steyn.
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Making sense of sound
It's easy to take hearing for granted as most of us know nothing about how the delicate ear interprets sound waves, writes Abré J Steyn.
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The curse under our feet
When Erasmus Jacobs found the first diamond in South Africa in 1867, it would forever change our history to a mining legacy of bloodshed, corruption and destruction lasting to this very day. Abré J Steyn reports.
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