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Cryptic Chronicles of South African Legacy
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- 1. Colonial territory north of South Africa, linked to imperial myths
- 2. Biodiverse shrubland biome endemic to South Africa’s Cape
- 3. Local name for native plant with medicinally prized bright inflorescences
- 4. Traditional dugout canoe, though more common north, linked by river tales
- 8. Site of a tragic 2012 miners’ uprising, a modern socio-political flashpoint
- 9. 19th-century protectorate, now an independent Lesotho enclave
- 11. Wide-open rolling grasslands forming South Africa’s ecological backbone
- 18. Rare genus in South African flora, a challenge for taxonomists
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- 5. Architectural term for ancient sepulchral monuments of Limpopo tribes
- 6. Ancient fossil genus discovered in South African Karoo beds
- 7. Spear and symbol: Mandela’s armed resistance wing abbreviated
- 10. Iconic gold bullion, named for a Boer leader's domain
- 12. Early Dutch province, later a British colony with Zulu conflicts
- 13. Nguni language group and cattle-herding society from highveld
- 14. Systemic segregation dismantled yet etched in collective memory
- 15. Zulu word for cattle, symbolic in traditional wealth and status
- 16. Farm system restricting livestock, historically pivotal in land control
- 17. Meteoric scar, one of Earth’s oldest, near the Free State
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