Maloti-Drakensberg Park
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How it came to be
Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transboundary property made up of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho. Its basalt buttresses and sandstone ramparts shelter endangered species such as the Cape vulture and the bearded vulture, and the Lesotho side holds the Maloti minnow, a fish found nowhere else. The name Drakensberg comes from what the earliest Dutch settlers called the escarpment, Drakensbergen or Dragons' Mountains; in Zulu it is uKhahlamba and in Sotho Maloti.
Its caves and rock shelters hold the largest and most concentrated group of rock paintings in Africa south of the Sahara. According to UNESCO they represent the spiritual life of the San people, who lived in the area over a period of 4,000 years. Some 20,000 individual paintings have been recorded at 500 caves and overhangs between Royal Natal National Park and Bushman's Nek.
The South African park was inscribed as a World Heritage site on 30 November 2000. Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho was established on 8 May 1969, and 65 rock art sites have been identified there. In 2013 the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee approved Sehlabathebe as an extension and renamed the shared property Maloti-Drakensberg Park.
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