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Masters of Game Skin Processing
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Oasis Tanning Company is a dynamic hide, skin and leather company offering services and products globally to our vast array of international clients. Since 1998, Oasis Tanning Company has developed a long-established reputation of being the top exotic tannery in South Africa, and as world leaders of exotics. We at Oasis are committed to service excellence through the tanning and supply of leather goods to the highest quality and standards. www.oasistanning.co.za...
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Die ou Pastorie products available in Gauteng
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It is with great excitement that we announce to our Gauteng patrons that our full range of frozen meals, desserts, pâtés and other confectionery is now available at the Broadacres Spar on Cedar Road.

In these restricted times this is a most convenient way to get your hands on your favourite Ou Pastorie produce.

Please note: As the country moves into Level 3 of lockdown, in the interests of legality and responsibility, we will not be...

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Make it a family outing to Sterkfontein Caves
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Situated an hour’s drive from Johannesburg and Pretoria, the Sterkfontein Caves are world-famous for their fossil finds and are a popular visitor destination. After an extensive facelift in 2005, the Sterkfontein Caves site is now home to a top restaurant and conferencing facilities, offering easy access to the caves with modern walkways and a boardwalk past the excavation site where globally acclaimed fossils have been discovered. The Sterkfontein Caves are owned by the University of the Witwatersrand, whose scientists have been responsible...
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Private Jackie the Baboon 1913-1921
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Jackie was found as an infant by Albert Marr (some accounts refer to him as Andrew) on the family smallholding in Villieria, now a suburb of Pretoria on the southern side of the Magaliesberg. He had probably been orphaned by bounty hunters who were paid by the Transvaal government to shoot baboons raiding crops in the Moot Valley. Albert took the young baboon home and he was raised as a... Read more

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