Scientists have discovered 15 new species in the Karoo. The Karoo is one of the most understudied areas in South Africa. The Karoo BioGaps Project is calling on citizens to help digitise historic records. Scientists have discovered 15 new species in the arid Karoo region, ranging from a worm through to a new reptile species. […]

MeerKAT’s 64 dishes can study the way hydrogen gas moves around galaxies. SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryJun. 19, 2018 , 1:00 PM Today, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a continent-spanning radio astronomy project, announced that Spain has come on board as the collaboration’s 11th member. That boost will help the sometimes-troubled project […]

MeerKAT’s 64 dishes can study the way hydrogen gas moves around galaxies. SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryJun. 19, 2018 , 1:00 PM Today, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a continent-spanning radio astronomy project, announced that Spain has come on board as the collaboration’s 11th member. That boost will help the sometimes-troubled project […]

NASA This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  In January, I stood in a ditch in the middle of nowhere in South Africa, and the summer sun beat down as I stared at a heap of grape soda-colored rocks. Bob Gastaldo, the paleontologist whose research team I had been […]

An Epic Literary Festival Growing up in Wiltshire, England, Aaron Hicklin had scant exposure to literary works outside of the British canon. “The public education system was focused on British fiction — Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer,” he recalls. “I didn’t have any Greek classics at school.” It wasn’t until last year, when Emily Wilson’s new translation […]

The SA Weather Service has issued various warnings to parts of Western Cape and Eastern Cape, as well as the Central Karoo for Friday as a cold front moves through the country. Warnings For the Eastern Cape, Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the central interior of the province and the coastline between […]

analysis By Tony Jackman Karoo Food, by Graaff-Reinet based foodie, chef and seasoned ‘Karooster’, Gordon Wright, sure is one meaty tome. Launched at the annual Stoep Tasting Wine Weekend in Graaff-Reinet, one of the oldest and most beautiful towns in the country, the book deserves to become a South African classic. Gordon Wright is as […]

analysis By Tony Jackman Karoo Food, by Graaff-Reinet based foodie, chef and seasoned ‘Karooster’, Gordon Wright, sure is one meaty tome. Launched at the annual Stoep Tasting Wine Weekend in Graaff-Reinet, one of the oldest and most beautiful towns in the country, the book deserves to become a South African classic. Gordon Wright is as […]

Fossils representing two new species of saber-toothed prehistoric predators have been described by researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, USA) and the Vyatka Paleontological Museum (Kirov, Russia). These new species improve the scientists’ understanding of an important interval in the early evolution of mammals — a time, between mass extinctions, when […]

A ban on mohair by dozens of clothing retailers, including Hennes Mauritz AB and Esprit Holdings, is threatening a 1.5 billion rand ($117 million) industry in South Africa, the world’s biggest producer of the fiber. Almost 70 clothing companies worldwide have announced they’ll stop using mohair following the release this month of video footage from […]

Fight for what’s right with these 19 ethical hacking courses It might sound counterintuitive, but one of the best ways to bring down a hacker is with another hacker. Commonly known as “white hats,” or ethical hackers, these professionals use a cybercriminal’s tools against them, sniffing out network vulnerabilities and patching them up before they […]

Great food and wine, Insta-worthy views and jump-on-the-bed-amazing suites are honeymoon must-haves that can be found all over the world. South Africa has all of this and so much more, making it an increasingly popular honeymoon destination for the post nuptial jaunt. From feasting in the Winelands, roaming cosmopolitan Cape Town, road tripping down the Garden […]

Photos by Liz Lauren. Mies Julie is a scorchingly sexy, shockingly violent adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, transported from 1888 Sweden to 2012 South Africa. Incidents that may or may not happen offstage in 1888 happen onstage in 2012. In Mies Julie at Victory Gardens Theater, playwright Yaël Farber translates the relationship between a […]

At one crucial point in “Mies Julie,” Yaël Farber’s explosive and adept South African adaptation of August Strindberg’s throbbing naturalistic classic from 1888, now firing up the Victory Gardens Theater, the title character pulls out her trump card. We’re in the Karoo, the remote, semi-desert region of South Africa. The valet Jean has become John, […]

Early winter rains have brought relief to many farmers in the drought-stricken Western Cape – but there are some areas where farmers are still in dire straits. Carl Opperman, CEO of Agri Wes-Cape, said that after three years of drought, some farmers in the Swartland and Overberg regions, the grain baskets of the Western Cape […]

A new report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) advised a cautious approach for countries looking to increase access to energy, particularly through hydraulic fracturing. UNCTAD said that the report, commissioned to study fracturing’s suitability with commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, is aimed at policymakers and other stakeholders. It argued […]

JOHANNESBURG — South African Energy Minister Jeff Radebe recently signed agreements with 27 independent power producers after more than two years of delays. The deals promise to revive the nation’s renewable-energy program that was once the world’s fastest growing, but has floundered amid the delays. The projects being signed will release R56 billion of investments […]

Sutherland – Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope system. The […]

Sutherland – Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope system. The […]

Radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array point skyward as the sun sets over the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope near Carnavon in the country’s remote Northern Cape province in this picture taken May 17, 2012. South Africa is bidding against Australia to host the SKA, which will be […]