South Africa is currently home to twelve World Heritage Sites. The first three were awarded in 1999, with eight sites listed for their cultural significance and five for natural significance.

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

The new UNESCO World Heritage sites added to the list this year include archaeological sites in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa that “provide the most varied and ...

South African caves, key to discoveries that shaped scientific understanding of early human behavior, have been designated as a World Heritage Site. The three new additions to the Heritage list ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee holds its 46th session from 21 to 31 July 2024 in New Delhi (India). Among other things, it will examine the proposals of 27 sites for inscription on the World ...