"Heritage Month is about taking the best in us and our past - and projecting it into a future that's Alive with Possibility ..." The International Marketing Council of South Africa offers 10 ways in which you can bring your heritage to life this September.

Just over 30 years ago, on 12 September 1977, Stephen Bantu Biko died in police detention at the age of 31, leaving behind him a fundamentally altered political landscape and a liberating mirror for the black men and women of South Africa.

South Africa's famous Rivonia Trial records, along with 38 other items of documentary heritage from around the world, have been added to the United Nations Memory of the World register in order to preserve them for future generations.

An 800-year-old rhino has come to town ... and is here to stay. A metre-long golden fibre-glass rhinoceros has been placed on a plinth in the mining precinct in Main Street, Johannesburg, to serve as a reminder of the city's gold mining history - and of Mapungubwe, South Africa's first "city of gold".

Take a brief tour through the rich, dramatic history of South Africa: from the earliest inhabitants through colonisation to the discovery of diamonds and gold - and the war that followed; from the formation and evolution of black resistance, through three decades of crisis to the eventual death of apartheid.

Thousands of South Africans and Mozambicans gathered in Mbuzini in South Africa's Mpumalanga province on Thursday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Mozambique's first democratic president, Samora Machel.