South Africa awarded its 10th World Heritage Site

The Makhonjwa Mountains in Mpumalanga, also known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt,  was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO early in July 2018.

The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains represents the best-preserved succession of volcanic and sedimentary rock dating back 3.6 to 3.25 billion years when the first continents were starting to form on the primitive earth. It features meteor-impact fallback breccias resulting from the impact of meteorites formed just after the Great Bombardment.

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