Long before we teach our children the word “wildlife,” they know the Hadeda. It’s not something we plan—it just happens. That ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

For years, critics of South Africa’s captive lion industry have insisted the animals are inbred. New research indicates things are more complicated—though the animals studied aren't inbred ...

Dr. Makhubela, a pioneering South African geologist and senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, is one of only 15 recipients to receive the 2025 National Geographic Society Wayfinder ...

South Africa’s National Energy Regulator, NERSA, registered 160 new generation facilities in the final quarter of the 2024/25 financial year, adding over 2,100 megawatts to the pipeline and ...

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species.

In the fenceless safari zones of southern Kenya, the Maasai have lived for centuries in symbiosis with wildlife — and smaller, more intimate camps can help give guests a window into their remarkable ...

Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning "apart-hood," is a system of legalized segregation that was widely practiced in South Africa and enacted by law by the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948.

South Africa’s winemakers of colour are changing the country’s viticulture, creating a crop of bold new brands. South African winemakers are ringing in a new dawn for local viniculture.

The prehistoric humans who left Africa some 60,000 years ago—giving rise over time to the other peoples of the world—reflected only a fraction of Africa’s diversity. 1. Neilton Vaalbooi (N), 2.

At sunset, humid air rises and cools over the canopy, creating clouds of mist. New research in the Congo Basin is revealing how this daily rhythm of the world’s second largest rainforest ...

Trump and his allies, particularly South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, have ramped up their rhetoric against South Africa in reaction to the recently enacted Expropriation Act of 2024, a ...