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14
Properties
2
Transboundary
2
States Parties with properties out of 196
0
Delisted
1
In Danger
7
Cultural
6
Natural
1
Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1988 Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park CF N AFR 1,740,000 475
2012 Sangha Trinational * CF N AFR 746,309 1380
2018 Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains ZA N AFR 113,137 1575
2004 Cape Floral Region Protected Areas ZA N AFR 1,094,742 1007
1999 Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa ZA C AFR 0 915
2024 Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites ZA C AFR 42 1676
1999 iSimangaliso Wetland Park ZA N AFR 239,566 914
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * ZA M AFR 249,313 985
2003 Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape ZA C AFR 28,169 1099
2007 Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape ZA C AFR 160,000 1265
1999 Robben Island ZA C AFR 475 916
2024 The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa ZA C AFR 57 1723
2005 Vredefort Dome ZA N AFR 30,000 1162
2017 ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape ZA C AFR 959,100 1545

*: transboundary property

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Cultural Natural Mixed

Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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