Flooding in Green Farm in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape, has resulted in hundreds being evacuated, SABC reported on Monday. This as heavy rains pour in the area.   On Monday, the South African Weather Service said more heavy rains were expected to persist over the Eastern Cape, Central Karoo and south coast (Eden District) in […]

Weather data provided by the South African Weather Service. For a detailed forecast of your province, click here. Warnings:  Heavy rainfall leading to localized flooding is expected along the coast and adjacent interior between East London and Durban. Watches:  Heavy rainfall leading to localized flooding is expected in places over the Free State, extreme east […]

This weekend brings with it one of the country’s biggest music events, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, and luckily there are still some tickets available. But if your pocket doesn’t allow for a spontaneous, last-minute outing, don’t stress, there are some epic music festivals coming up in SA and neighbouring countries this year. Start […]

The farming community of Sutherland in the Karoo is begging for help as they watch the lives of farmworkers, farmers and shopkeepers fall apart because of a prolonged six-year drought. “Our situation is grim,” said Hester Obermeyer, a member of the region’s drought-relief committee. “Farmers plan for one, two years of drought. But never in […]

Illustrative image. Photo: Dan Freeman/Unsplash Mauritius is small, isolated, but when it comes to a David versus Goliath sling-match, this island-nation with 1.4-million people is seriously kicking SA’s butt. How should SA rectify the balance? Let’s start with the obvious. Mauritius is NOT South Africa. It doesn’t have the vast emptiness of the Karoo, the […]

Illustrative image. Photo: Dan Freeman/Unsplash Mauritius is small, isolated, but when it comes to a David versus Goliath sling-match, this island-nation with 1.4-million people is seriously kicking SA’s butt. How should SA rectify the balance? Let’s start with the obvious. Mauritius is NOT South Africa. It doesn’t have the vast emptiness of the Karoo, the […]

Cape Town – The wildlife and the farmers in the Karoo will no longer have to sleep with one eye open now that the notorious escaped Karoo lion is back home at the Karoo National Park. The lion was spotted in the Northern Cape near the town of Sutherland. On the night of March 13 […]

Cape Town – The wildlife and the farmers in the Karoo will no longer have to sleep with one eye open now that the notorious escaped Karoo lion is back home at the Karoo National Park. The lion was spotted in the Northern Cape near the town of Sutherland. On the night of March 13 […]

A land of sharp contrasts You learn from the museum that a nearby railroad line from Cape Town, the carving of the tortuous pass through the Swartbergs, a short-lived boom in ostrich feathers for Europeans and a gold rush that fizzled all contributed to the growth of the village, which today has 7,000 inhabitants, roughly […]

In the desert of the Karoo, well off he beaten trail between Joburg and Cape Town lies Prince Albert, a true oasis of beauty and culture. The village, Prince Albert, sometimes has the look of a sleepy frontier settlement out of the old American West, but it is known among travel connoisseurs for pristine examples […]

It will be partly cloudy across the country on Friday and warm to hot weather is expected to creep in later in the afternoon. Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the central parts of the Northern Cape as well as the Central Karoo District of the Western Cape, according to information provided by […]

It will be partly cloudy across the country on Friday and warm to hot weather is expected to creep in later in the afternoon. Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the central parts of the Northern Cape as well as the Central Karoo District of the Western Cape, according to information provided by […]

The search for the male lion that escaped from the Karoo National Park in Beaufort West has taken rangers and trackers as far as Sutherland in the Northern Cape. Search and tracker teams have been trying to locate the animal in difficult terrain for weeks since it escaped on February 15. On Monday, SANParks said […]

The lion missing from the Karoo National Park near Beaufort West has been tracked close to the town of Sutherland. “It’s now near Sutherland on the south-west part,” Reynold “Rey T” Thakhuli, SANParks general manager for media, PR and stakeholder relations, told News24. READ: Missing Karoo lion takes trackers, rangers as far as the Northern […]

The Elgin district producer-owned apple and pear packing and storage business Two-a-Day Group recently donated more than R500,000 (€30.000) to the Agri Western Cape drought relief fund. According to Attie van Zyl, managing director of the business, more than 80% of the growers voted to contribute a per-carton amount to the neediest growers in the […]

Botswana-born Kabelo Kesebonye is the first student on the HIRAX radio telescope array to receive his postgraduate degree after graduating with an MSc in applied mathematics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Jointly funded by UKZN and the Department of Science and Technology through the National Research Foundation, the […]

Professor Michael William Feast Photo: Michael Hammond / University of Cape Town Cape Town – The late Professor Michael William Feast has been described as “a true steward of the value and values of science” by the astronomy community. The honorary professor of astronomy at UCT and National Research Foundation (NRF) A-rated researcher, died on […]

SANParks authorities are celebrating the capture of the lion which escaped from the Karoo National Park. The male lion, which went missing on February 15, was tracked to a farm outside Sutherland and darted on Wednesday night. “I spoke to the leader of the team this morning, and he is proud of the team,” an […]

Smaller political parties in the Western Cape believe they hold the key to a possible coalition government in the province after next month’s general election. No opposition party currently believes it can win an outright majority in the only province governed by the Democratic Alliance (DA). But they say there’s a strong likelihood that the […]

The Armadillo girdled lizard is endemic to the mountains and rocky hills of the succulent Karoo veld of western South Africa, from the Orange River southwards to north of Porterville and eastwards to the west of Laingsburg, reports Alberton Record. Its scientific name, Ouroborus cataphractus, is derived from its habit of rolling into a ball and biting […]