In the global spotlight

South Africa is today basking in the global spotlight.

In what is being celebrated as the greatest scientific find in the search for human origins, it has emerged that a new species of human relative has been found.

The announcement at the Maropeng visitors' centre, was that in a remote cave chamber named Dinaledi (The Stars), the largest amount of hominin fossils in Africa had been found.

The picture on the front page of today's newspaper shows legendary paleo-anthropologist Dr. Lee Burger, shares a light moment with a replica of the skull of the newly discovered Homo naledi.