A new study has warned of a sharp drop in blue crane chicks in Overberg and Swartland
The annual Mining Indaba in Cape Town this week again shines a spotlight on the importance of institutions and incentives if mining is to yield broad-based development across…
The meteorite streaked across the sky on 25 August
South Africa’s dwarf tortoises, and other species, are being wiped out because they are easy prey for pied crows
Water scarcity in dry places has long shaped how people have used the resource
From bags to outfits, most ostrich products are, once again, from South Africa
‘Who in their right mind would allow a grown man who started a relationship with a 15-year-old [to become] the mayor of your municipality?!’
Diabetes is different from other non-communicable diseases, this author says. It can’t be spread in a literal sense and is instead often forced upon people by factors beyond…
Expert calls for a radical rethink of how South Africa manages brown locust outbreaks.
Unreported locust swarms in unoccupied farms, game and environmental parks can grow, cover large distances and destroy entire crops
How farmers perceive jackal and caracal — as ‘beautiful’ or ‘thieves’ — determines whether they will tolerate them on their livestock farms
The decision to use Turkey’s floating power plants locks the country into fossil fuels for 20 years
But Agricultural Research Council says outbreak is normal, and only a medium-sized outbreak
Officials in Beaufort West, which is on a route that links the Cape with the rest of the country, are worried relaxed lockdown regulations mean residents are now at risk of…
As the Karoo hopes for an end to its worst drought in a generation, the region’s history may hold important lessons for its future
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The minister of mineral resources and energy, Gwede Mantashe, has announced that his department will not be extracting gas by way of fracking
The arid Karoo was fertile soil for the writing of a young, white, female agnostic in the late 1800s and she is an example of a decolonised mind
Smaller parties in the Western Cape say the most pressing issue of unemployment is not being addressed
With 60% of the Karoo town jobless, the maverick politician has his work cut out for him
