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Rocking the Cradle
The politics of the deep past in a Rainbow Nation (South Africa)
by Tom Griffiths and Vincent Carruthers
This paper emerged from a dialogue between an Australian (Tom Griffiths) and a South African (Vincent Carruthers), who together visited Maropeng, the Visitors' Centre at the 'Cradle of Humankind', the new World Heritage Site near Johannesburg.