At first glance, it would seem that the Covid-19 crisis has won some major concessions for ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and his Radical Economic Transformers — policy changes that just a month ago would have taken place over the Establishment’s mass grave. And yet, there has been no crowing. It appears that neither the RET […]

By Travel reporter 22h ago Share this article: ShareTweetShareShareShareEmail Bees will save key tree species at a South African game reserve. The move by Samara Private Game Reserve will help animals from tearing down trees.  The game reserve in the Eastern Cape will use “nature’s smallest guards”, which is a widely used weapon in the conservation […]

Winde praised the community of the Bo-Kaap, on the edge of Cape Town city centre, for setting up its own Covid-19 response team. “This team, together with proactive and open family of a patient, was able to alert the community to a positive test in a way that was informative and did not stigmatise the […]

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New ages for fossilized vertebrates that lived just after the demise of the fauna that dominated the late Permian show that the ecosystem changes began hundreds of thousands of years earlier on land than in the sea, eventually resulting in the demise of up to 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species. The later marine extinction, in […]

Data analysts have long encountered challenges in the interpretation of large datasets for use in decision-making. With the advent of data cubes in recent years, the burden on analysts has been alleviated through reliance on multidimensional arrays of values represented in the form of a data cube. In light of these developments, discussions are underway […]

By Inès Magoum – Published on March 25 2020 / Modified on March 25 2020 The Western Cape Province is benefiting from a South African government contingency plan to deal with drought. It consists of a 25 million rand ($1.42 million) package to support agriculture in the Central Karoo and Garden Route districts. The Western […]

The declaration of a nation-wide state of disaster that appeared yesterday in the Government Gazette has taken agricultural organisations by surprise, given that large parts in the east of the country recently received good rains. In a statement Agri SA, an agricultural industry association said: “The rationale behind this national disaster declaration remains unclear due […]

Radio telescopes are located in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, and their hardware systems need to survive the elements. IronHive, developed as part of SA’s giant MeerKAT telescope, is a collection of computer processors, each the size of a credit card, encased in an oil-filled container. This is one of a number […]

“What we want to do is to secure some revenue and make the wheels turn, albeit a little bit slower.” He said an interest rate cut and a decision from municipalities to suspend payment of rates could help small businesses. “We have to battle through and knuckle down, I fear for the small business. They […]

Ben Brynard’s family has been farming sheep in northwest South Africa since 1923, and for the past 66 years has kept records on annual rainfall in the nearby town of Calvinia. In all that time, the three inches of rain he measured for 2019 was the least they’d ever gotten. Brynard looked at official records going […]

Oudtshoorn has been home to the popular Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK) for the past 25 years, with thousands of festival goers and artists flocking to the Klein Karoo town for the annual cultural feast it has become known for. But this year, the tempting smell of ostrich potjies won’t be wafting in the air…neither […]

The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) has become the latest large-scale event to announce that it will not be going ahead as planned following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival was due to take place from 23 to 29 March. The festival made the announcement on its official website on Saturday, 14 […]

By Rene Vollgraaff Mar 9, 2020 Share this article: ShareTweetShareShareShareEmailShareJOHANNESBURG – Ben Brynard’s family has been farming sheep in northwest South Africa since 1923, and for the past 66 years has kept records on annual rainfall in the nearby town of Calvinia.  FILE PHOTO: Cracks are seen in the dried up municipal dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, […]

We chase the setting sun along the N1 and after a four-hour drive from Cape Town, we arrive in what seems like a deserted Prince Albert. At five o’clock and with the change of season encroaching, the setting sun is soon forgotten. Driving up the main road, I take in the quirky surrounds: Farm stalls […]

Ben Brynard’s family has been farming sheep in northwest South Africa since 1923, and for the past 66 years has kept records on annual rainfall in the nearby town of Calvinia. In all that time, the three inches of rain he measured for 2019 was the least they’d ever gotten. Brynard looked at official records […]

Northern Cape photographer Henriette Folscher Brandvlei captured this sequence of photos of the apocalyptic scene as a massive sand storm swept through the drought-stricken area near Kenhardt, South Africa, a couple of weeks ago (mid-February): The dust storm approaches… In the middle of it… Henriette, a farmer’s wife, said the drought is very, very severe […]

To match the rich diversity we’re renowned for, South Africa has done us proud yet again and has us covered for another year’s worth of seriously great music and arts festivals. Reflecting this same diversity by showcasing various music genres and styles, honouring our great outdoors wherever possible, and spanning the corners of our beloved country — […]

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