Soft-drink companies use it by the tonne, natural health devotees swear by it and it forms part of secret recipes for French perfume despite having a bouquet similar to cat’s urine. The South African herb buchu is now so valuable it is attracting poachers.
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/ 22 November 2006
In the caves of South Africa’s Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about living in harmony with nature. That is the view of John Parkington, professor of archaeology at the University of Cape Town, who has spent 40 years in the Cederberg and neighbouring areas researching rock paintings.
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/ 29 September 2006
Many of the footballers representing their countries in an international tournament in South Africa this week were remarkably gaunt, sallow-looking and groomed haphazardly. They looked, in fact, as if they had spent the past few years living on the streets. Indeed, that is where these improbable athletes had been spending much of their time before arriving at the Homeless World Cup in Cape Town.
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/ 26 September 2006
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu says some of South Africa’s leaders are sinners and his compatriots have failed to sustain the idealism that brought an end to apartheid. ”Part of our own disillusionment is the high expectations that we had,” Archbishop Tutu told reporters on Monday night.
When a gang of seabird-killing seals ate the main tourist draw of Lamberts Bay, residents of the small South African town called in a surfer, an artist and a flock of fake gannets to save the day. Cape gannets had been breeding on a tiny island off Lamberts Bay, on the Atlantic coast 250km north of Cape Town, since the early 1900s, becoming a profitable — albeit raucous and smelly — part of the landscape.
Rock cliffs loom high above the wingtips of the two-seater plane as it banks sharply through the winding course of a narrow ravine in South Africa’s rugged Cederberg mountains. Pilot Johan Ferreira is in his element — he has found a way to combine his love for flying with a passion for nature by helping to track the elusive leopards that roam the mountain wilderness.