has now polluted some 40km of West Coast beaches and is threatening the Oilfant's River estuary - a critical biodiversity area. Bird Island near Strandfontein is also just 20km south of the ...

South Africa has submitted more than 50 species to the Red List of threatened species every year for the past three years from the Richtersveld region alone due to expanding diamond mining, ongoing ...

Clean-up operations continue on West Coast beaches after an oil spill from ... "steady progress", according to a statement by the South African Maritime Safety Association (SAMSA) this week.

Ivory Coast and Chad are the latest in a string of former French colonies in West and Central Africa ... told CNN from South Africa. In CAR, Martin Ziguélé, a former prime minister and current ...

Weathered, historic diamond-find ledgers, fossilised oyster shells, mineralised rock formations, salt deposits and old rusted ...

The Maldives … more than just a honeymoon escape.Credit: iStock The Indian Ocean stretches from Western Australia to the east coast of Africa ... west coast which includes one of South ...

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They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa (GSWA ... HMT Bechuana proceeds down the coast to Port Amelia, Nyasaland with decks crowded ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

South Africa's famous scenic road has long been a tourist magnet, but only now is the sheer variety of birds awaiting hikers becoming the focus of attention. A new project now aims to turn Garden ...

The City of Cape Town’s plan to have a permanent desalination plant operational by 2026 is ... that often sweeps around Table Bay and up the coast,” she says. “It’s not trivial at all.