About 130 people remain trapped in their vehicles in the northern parts of the Eastern Cape by the heavy snowfalls that have blocked roads and cut off several towns in the province.
With only 69 days to go before the start of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, concern is mounting over whether heads of state from several key industrialised nations will attend the event.
A South African hiker on Thursday described how he and other members of a group hiking the remote Naukluft Trail in central Namibia were set upon by a swarm of African killer bees.
Almost two-thirds of accident fatalities on South African mines last year occurred on gold mines, says the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate.
Black economic empowerment within South Africa’s commercial fishing industry, including the key hake, pelagic, rock lobster and abalone fisheries, appears to be well on track.
The days really do get shorter as you get older, although even the Old Testament patriarch Methuselah, who is supposed to have lived 969 years, is unlikely to have been troubled by the phenomenon.
War, fire, logging and agriculture are taking a heavy toll on Africa’s mountain regions, says the Nairobi-based United Nations Environment Programme.
Southern Africa is fast developing an international reputation for excellence in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics.
One of South Africa’s leading maritime authorities has called on government to establish a coastguard, saying failure to do so could lead to huge losses in the country’s fishing industry.
South Africa has made a strong call to other African countries to support a bid by itself and four of its neighbours to be allowed to legally sell elephant ivory.