“West Coast gas can industrialise South Africa as coal did 80 years ago,” says Human. He pleads for much more urgency around the exploration and development of the West Coast gas fields.

Alluvial diamonds were initially found along the coastal strip of Namibia (South West Africa) near Luderitz in 1908, then in 1925 (17 years later) rich deposits were discovered and registered by ...

West Coast fishers and environmental activists have gone to court to try to stop French multinational, TotalEnergies, from exploring for oil and gas off the coast. The Aukotowa small-scale ...

And in 2009, it was that green jungle canopy that caught the eye of the South African multimillionaire who is funding its future. Mark Shuttleworth, born in Welkom, South Africa, came to the ...

Before Europeans settled in South Africa in 1652, the !Ama knew no borders, following the rains in search of grazing land for their cattle. But the arrival of land-hungry colonials – who noted ...

South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) spokesperson Tebogo Ramatjie said the grounded ship had broken into four sections during severe weather over the weekend. READ | Seabird rescue team ...

Spectators have shared their shock and horror as they watched a decorated South African Air Force pilot crash to his death at a local air show, while they recalled his final moments. James O ...

The region of West Africa is “such a hydrocarbon-rich part of the world and relatively under-explored compared to other jurisdictions,” Liz Schwarze, Chevron Global Exploration Vice President ...

T he discovery of buried "mud waves" off the coast of western Africa reveals that the Atlantic Ocean was born at least 4 million years earlier than scientists previously thought.

French oil major TotalEnergies said on Monday it would withdraw from an offshore natural gas block off South Africa's southern coast because developing the finds commercially would be too difficult.