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Bird and tortoise fossil tracks on South Africa’s coast – latest findings are world firsts

The south coast of South Africa’s Western Cape province is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces – clues suggesting what this environment may have been like many thousands of years ago.

The Conversation

Cape Fever: a haunting new novel from award-winning South African writer Nadia Davids

There’s a line in Cape Fever, the new book by award-winning South African novelist and playwright Nadia Davids, that doesn’t just establish the story, it also makes a haunting promise:

The Conversation

Florida space coast cities abuzz before Nasa’s Artemis launch: ‘At the doorstep of the future’

Cape Canaveral and Titusville, long ghost towns after 1969 moon landing, have witnessed space industry ‘renaissance’

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'Dodged a bullet': sigh of relief for cyclone-hit area

Far north communities have escaped potential disaster after a direct hit from Tropical Cyclone Narelle as the clean-up continues.

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Fine art photographer aims to break 20,000km Cape to Cape world record with camera in hand

John Balsdon, a fine art photographer and explorer, aims to complete the 20,000km journey from Norway to South Africa in record time and capture the whole journey on camera

Digital Camera World

The Iran war and global trade: will the Cape route become the new normal?

Events in the Middle East during February and March 2026 again disrupted the flows of shipping trade to the eastern and western spheres of the international system.

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Leopards adapted to South Africa’s Cape so successfully that they’re genetically unique – study

Animals of the same species don’t always look the same. From birds with different beak shapes to mammals that vary in size or colour, populations living in different places can often look very different.

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Colonial tax records hold 3 lessons for South Africa today – economic historian

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and uncooperative taxpayers. It is a tiny window on the regular frustrations of a…

The Conversation

Cape Fever by Nadia Davids review – a power struggle between mistress and maid

Set in a colonial city after the first world war, this story of a battle of wills between an elderly widow and her young servant is deftly told

The Guardian - UK

US Space Force to get 'next level' tech to combat drones near Cape Canaveral launch sites

The U.S. Space Force is boosting its ability to deter and defeat drones and other uncrewed aerial systems near Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the Eastern Range.

Space

Where did the first people come from? The case for a coastal migration from southern Africa

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late Pleistocene epoch, which began about 126,000 years ago. Various dispersal routes have been suggested.

The Conversation

Cape Cod is considering taxing luxury home sales of $2+ million to raise funds for the housing market's 'missing middle'

The region is one of the latest to introduce a mansion tax.

Fortune

South Africa’s earliest newspapers made money from slavery: book offers new evidence

In a recently published book, Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press (2025 Routledge), author and journalism professor Gawie Botma explores the gap in the country’s understanding about the complicity of South African journalism in slavery. He spoke to The Conversation about what he…

The Conversation

US hunter reportedly killed by buffalo during expedition in South Africa

Asher Watkins, 52, of Texas died while tracking 1.3-ton Cape buffalo on a hunting trip in the country’s Limpopo province

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Salsify in Cape Town: The fine dining restaurant rewriting the South African food story

TOP TABLES: Recently ranked among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Salsify is making waves with indigenous ingredients, world-class technique and a chef who’s obsessed with flavour, writes Lilly Subbotin

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US Army launches hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

The U.S. Army launched its new hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force station last week, just days after naming it the "Dark Eagle."

The Conversation

First fossil pangolin tracks discovered in South Africa

A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa’s southern Cape coast have identified the world’s first fossil pangolin trackway, with the help of Indigenous Master Trackers from Namibia. Ichnologists Charles Helm, Clive Thompson and Jan De Vynck tell the story.

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Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again – new study

Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds.

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Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and palaeontologist Gideon Mantell in England.

The Guardian - UK

If the Cape fits: time to rediscover South Africa’s wines?

South Africa may be best known for its pinotage, but modern production now has a focus on sustainability and centres on French grape varieties

The Guardian - UK

Bo-Kaap: the candy-coloured corner of Cape Town facing tourism v heritage dilemma

Some locals in picturesque district of Bo-Kaap are fed up with influx of visitors, and worry about impact of gentrification

The Independent UK

Cape vultures are swooping into a new exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo

A “committee” of Cape vultures is swooping into the Los Angeles Zoo to make its home in an exhibit that seeks to mirror the birds’ natural South African habitat

Evening Standard

Princess Royal to honour sacrifices of black South Africans in First World War

Anne will unveil the Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial.

Al Jazeera

Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa

A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week recognises the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants.

The Guardian - UK

Soak up the rays: wines tasting of sunshine

Escape the gloom with these big red wines bursting with the flavours of warm countries

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