Even though you arrive on the scene hours after the highway robbery, your heart still quickens at the sight. It’s dawn, it’s cold and the air is thick with steam rising from car exhausts. The flashing lights on the police cars greet your eyes, the yellow-and-white tape stretched across the road.
It’s not often, in the patrilineal Zulu hierarchy, that the succession of chieftainship goes to a woman. But the Mpungose royal family now has its first female inkosi, who has brought new energy to the position. Lily Mpungose has tackled her job with determination.
The translocation of young elephant bulls has taught scientists the value of the animals’ social structure. In 1994 rhinos were being found dead in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve with their horns ripped out, their backs broken and their bodies mutilated.
Plans to turn a world heritage site into a Big Five game park could be shelved if a herd of elephants are unable to adjust to their new home
Schoolchildren in Khula Village in KwaZulu-Natal are learning how to protect and care for their environment