Wilderness Search And Rescue teams in the Western Cape faced an unprecedented surge in callouts this January, surpassing last year's total in just one day, as they responded to multiple emergencies, ...

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found nowhere else on earth. At Grootbos, science, conservation and luxury ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

Around a dozen gunmen opened fire at bar patrons, the police said. A manhunt for the unknown assailants was underway. By Zimasa Matiwane and Jin Yu Young Zimasa Matiwane reported from Johannesburg.

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

When South Africa took over the annual presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20), a bloc of the world’s major economies, in December 2024 it created a valuable opening for Africa on the global stage.

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This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

There is legal battle over Gauteng's K148 road, where economic ambition clashes with environmental protection, as a proposed R50 billion inland port threatens one of the province's most cherished ...

Little more than a month ago the U.S. Army Reserve Center on the South Side was the jumping-off point for more than 200 of Tucson’s finest who were deployed to the Middle East. But in the very near ...

Marcelle-Marie is a third-generation farmer who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is the daughter of ...