New 3 100m weather station promises vital insights into rainfall, temperature and extreme weather patterns in a changing climate
The city has defended spending ratepayers money to host a meeting at the Champagne Sports Resort, but refused to divulge the total cost
The reserve connects the Maluti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area to southern grazing lands. Conservationists hope there will soon be a continuous protected area
The Drakensberg Boys Choir collaborate with George Philippart of The Voice Germany to raise awareness on vulture conservation
Residents and local business owners have long begged the transport department to fix the severely potholed R600 that runs into the valley to resorts and smaller tourism businesses on which more than 1 500 local jobs depend
The Drakensberg does a vanishing act on Kevin Davie as he maps out a mountain bike route from one end to the other.
Two people have died after a church group spent a night in freeezing weather at the top of the Mount-Aux-Sources peak in the Drakensberg near Witsieshoed in Qwaqwa, Free State police said on Saturday. Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said the group left for Mount-Aux-Sources on May 1 for a prayer session on the mountain.
A 21-year-old man was rescued in the Drakensberg mountains in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday morning after falling 10m down a cliff, the Mountain Club of South Africa said. A German exchange student at the University of Stellenbosch, the man was among a group of 32 hikers who had gone camping in the mountains on Wednesday.
Heavy snowfalls are likely over the north-eastern parts of the Eastern Cape on Thursday, the South African Weather Service said. Forecaster Deon van der Mescht said very cold and wet conditions were expected in Aliwal North, Queenstown and Molteno. Snowfalls would then move to the Drakensberg.
The SAS Drakensberg would leave for the island of St Helena on Sunday to take part in the island’s 500th anniversary celebrations.