Namaqualand
latest news & developments
Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme
A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice
World’s oldest termite mounds discovered in SA are key to climate change and carbon storage studies
There is growing evidence that termites have a substantial but still poorly understood role in the carbon cycle
LOOK: Namaqualand is a blooming beauty
A researcher has found that the wildflowers, a popular tourist attraction, are blooming earlier each decade
Meet the queen working to keep South Africa’s Nama language alive
Even in hardship Nama blooms.
Of carrier pigeons and diamond smugglers
This is an extract from a new book Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
Climate change threatens survival of endemic species the most
If Earth warms by 3°C, a third of species living on land and about half of endemic marine species will become extinct
Stop calling us ‘coloured’ and denying us our diverse African identities
Khoi Revivalists denounce racist groups using its name and want the apartheid category eliminated
Northern Cape Nama farmers fear expropriation of ancestral land
Where else would we go? ask Nama descendants who fret that communal land will be taken. Some still follow traditional ways, writes Carl Collison
Monitoring the impact of the weather on Northern Cape tourism
Some tourist sites like Namaqualand are weather-dependent; increasing the number of tourists is vital