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Protected: The Berg River Estuary on South Africa’s West Coast. (Dewald Kirsten)

Western Cape wetland gets new environmental protection

The Berg River Estuary has been declared South Africa’s 28th Ramsar site, yet 79% of the country’s wetlands remain threatened and 48% are critically endangered

Paging Dr Tamaryn Green: Miss South Africa 2018 is a medical doctor with innovative ideas for better conditions on both the patient’s and the doctor’s side of the bed. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Q&A Sessions: Heels to takkies, dresses to scrubs with Dr Tamaryn Green

Miss South Africa 2018 and Miss Universe runner-up Dr Tamaryn Green wants better working conditions for patients and doctors. As a TB and Covid-19 survivor herself, she talks to…

Out of hand: Tammy-Ann Julies* says she drank until she was seven months pregnant with her son

‘I gave my children booze – and now I fear for their future’

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

‘Drunks’ disrupt ANC meeting

An ANC meeting has been called off after a reportedly drunk group of outsiders caused a disruption.

Skwatsha stabbed at ANC meeting

The African National Congress’s Western Cape secretary, Mcebisi Skwatsha, was stabbed in the neck at an ANC meeting on Thursday evening.

Veteran Hick offered new county deal

Graeme Hick is currently considering his future after Worcestershire announced on Monday they had offered him a new contract for the 2007 season, which would allow the former…

How many HIV-positive inmates are there in SA?

The correctional services department needs to act now to combat Aids in prisons to prevent a national crisis in a few years, New National Party MP Adriaan van Jaarsveld said on…