In another study in the same journal, the team describes a growth in a vertebrae from a 1.98-million-year-old juvenile skeleton of Australopithecus sediba, discovered by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger at a site called Malapa, a few miles from Swartkrans. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known benign growth was in the 120,000-year-old rib of a Neanderthal, excavated in Croatia.
Katika ziara hiyo naibu waziri alijionea harakati mbalimbali zinazofanywa na SBL katika uhifadhi wa mazingira ikiwemo ujenzi wa bomba maalum lenye urefu wa kilomita 2.1 linalosafirisa majitaka kutoka kiwandani hapo hadi mfumo wa majitaka wa DAWASCO ulioko kurasini.