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  2. Skin (2008 film) - Wikipedia

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    Skin is a 2008 biographical drama film directed by Anthony Fabian.It is based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, [1] and the life of Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism.

  3. Day spa - Wikipedia

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    A day spa in Milan, Italy A day spa in Wrocław, Poland. A day spa is a business that provides a variety of services for the purpose of improving health, beauty, and relaxation through personal care treatments such as massages and facials. The number of day spas in the US almost doubled in the two years from 2002 to 2004, to 8,734, according to ...

  4. Sandra Laing - Wikipedia

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    Sandra Laing (born 26 November 1955) is a South African woman who was classified as Coloured by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was officially listed as the child of at least three generations of ancestors who had been regarded as white. At the age of 10, she was expelled from her all ...

  5. List of social nudity places in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Nudist beaches are by nature remote and secluded and in South Africa this makes them unsafe as criminals find them ideal for their purposes too. [citation needed] Nudists are advised to try to keep in big groups, singles and couples should exercise a great deal of caution if visiting the lesser known nudist beaches. [citation needed]

  6. Gorgonopsia - Wikipedia

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    During the Upper Permian, the South African Beaufort Group was a semi-arid cold steppe featuring large, seasonal rivers and floodplains draining water sources much farther north into the Karoo Sea, with some occurrences of flash floods after sudden, heavy rainfall; [54] [55] the distribution of carbonates is consistent with present-day caliche ...

  7. Otjize - Wikipedia

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    In 2022 a team of South African and French scientists published a study of otjize's physical properties, concluding that "such a red ochre exhibits an exceptional UV filtration and a significant IR reflectivity substantiating its effectiveness as an effective UV-blocking and solar heat IR reflector in support of the low skin cancer rate within the Namibian Himba community".

  8. List of films: S - Wikipedia

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    Schuks Tshabalala's Survival Guide to South Africa (2010) Schulmädchen-Report (1970) Schultze Gets the Blues (2003) Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte (1978) Schweik in Civilian Life (1927) Schweik's New Adventures (1943) Schweitzer (1990)

  9. Shark tourism - Wikipedia

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    South African is known for conservation of sharks and diversity of species on the coastline. Cape Town is known for Great whites and Seven-gill sharks and Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks are known for ragged-tooth sharks (also known as grey nurse or spotted sand tiger sharks), hammerhead schools, white tips reef sharks, oceanic black tip sharks ...