Ancient Ruins of South Africa. A rare aerial view of a few ancient ruins of South Africa, from a shaky helicopter in 2008. A tiny fraction of more than 5 million ancient ruins like these that cover large parts of South Africa. This was a PR clip for my annual tours of the USA and Canada. These ruins were dated to well over 100,000 years old, when there were almost no inhabitants in this part of the world, other than the ancient Bushman tribes. The question that needs to be answered is "who built