Photo: Courtesy Iziko Museums

The prominence San rock art and their almost extinct language enjoyed at the turn of the century as markers of the new South Africa’s heritage, inscribed on one of its national symbols, stimulated popular interest in this universal heritage. It had the stamp of approval of distinguished scholars of rock art, who also contributed significantly to the process of inscribing the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, with its superb range of rock art sites, as one of South Africa’s eight World Heritage Sites in 2004.