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Win with Maropeng and the Tumulus Restaurant

Make your weekend one to remember for you and your family with this week’s fantastic prize in our weekly Facebook competition.

Maropeng Cooper’s Cave Competition

The Maropeng Visitor Centre is running a weekly competition where you can win a fantastic prize that will let you experience the beauty of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.

Maropeng Easter Competition

The Maropeng Visitor Centre is running a weekly competition where you can win a fantastic prize that will let you experience the beauty of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.

Harry the Hominid debuts on Ethiopian TV

Not only did Maropeng’s ambassador Harry the Hominid add a stamp to his passport when he visited Germany recently for the ITB Berlin 2011 travel trade show, but he will also feature on Ethiopia TV in an interview with Maropeng General Manager Erica Jago.

Media statement: Unilateral, discriminatory taxes on long-haul destinations

South African Minister of Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk read out the media statement below at South Africa’s exhibition stand at ITB Berlin 2011 on 11 March 2011. Erica Jago, general manager of Maropeng is in Berlin, promoting Maropeng and the Cradle of Humankind as Gauteng’s premier tourism attraction.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Maropeng – photo essay

The award-winning boutique hotel at Maropeng has two fantastic specials running this weekend for couples who want to spend a romantic weekend out of the city. Only an hour out of Johannesburg and Pretoria, the Cradle of Humankind is an ideal getaway destination for Gautengers who don’t want to travel too far.

Beauty and love: ancient concepts our hominid ancestors experienced?

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But actually, according to prominent philosopher Denis Dutton, beauty is a gift handed down from our hominid ancestors.

Swartkrans Walking Tour: Visit the site of South Africa’s first braai!

Sally Shaw

South Africans love a good braai and we humans and our hominid ancestors have been enjoying braaied meat under Gauteng skies for a long time. Perhaps even 1-million years, according to the archaeological record in the Cradle of Humankind.

Cooper’s Cave – a living museum

Sally Shaw

How would you like to explore a living museum, where you can see fossils in the rocks that describe the world as it was between 1.8 and 1.4-million years ago?

Calling all jazz lovers

Join the Chromatics for jazzy Sunday lunches at the Maropeng Hotel, launching on July 4, 2009.

Established musicians Michael Ramasimont and Bareng Seilane make up this jazz duo. Maropeng Marketing Manager Erica Saunders says, “We auditioned a lot of bands, but really liked their sound.”

The Chromatics, influenced by jazz greats Duke Ellington and Sergio Mendes, produce a mixture of old school and modern jazz.