Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape | Proclaimed as the eighth World Heritage Site in South Africa, Northern Cape

Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape

Northern Cape, South Africa

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Richtersveld Cultural Botanical

RICHTERSVELD LANDSCAPE
ColesbergRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape WHS:
Recently inscribed as the eighth World Heritage Site in South Africa, the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape is a remarkable mountainous desert in the north-west of the country that is uniquely owned and managed by the Nama community, descendents of the Khoi-Khoi people.

The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape is a land of extreme temperatures characterised by a harsh, dry landscape. What is exceptional, both in South African and international terms, is that the community that runs the landscape has chosen to dedicate it to conservation.

Up until recently the Nama had little to show for themselves. Their ancestors were pushed further and further north of the Western and Northern Cape - their land of origin - until only a few years ago when the Richtersveld area was returned to their ownership under the country’s land restitution programme.

ColesbergToday the Nama people live in three small villages - Kuboes, Lekkersing and Eksteenfontein - just outside the proclaimed area. The proclaimed Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape is bordered by a number of areas, ensuring its further protection. These include the Richtersveld National Park, the Nababiep provincial Nature Reserve, and designated communal grazing areas that allow the Nama to continue their semi-nomadic pastoral lifestyle. The spacious communal grazed lands are a living example of a partnership between people and nature.

The endangered Karoo vegetation, characterised by succulents, is protected by the seasonal migratory behaviour of the Nama, who move between stock-posts with traditional demountable mat-roofed houses called haru oms - a practice which has endured for about two millennia.
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Richtersveld National Park
Richtersveld National Park: 160 000 ha of crenellated lava mountains and sandy plains form southern Africa’s largest mountain desert park. The Richtersveld is home to grey rhebok, Duiker, steenbok, klipspringer, kudu, Hartman’s mountain zebra, baboon, velvet monkey, caracal and leopard. Birdlife is ...

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