South African poetry has a new digital archive – what’s behind the project
Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...
K Sello Duiker, a rock star of South African literature, died 20 years ago. How his work lives on
He explored the darker realities of South African life in three novels before his untimely passing at the age of 30.
A new twist in an old origin story: Earliest dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon
The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and ...
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First dinosaurs may have evolved in northern Africa and South America
By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...
1,772 Black servicemen who died in WWI were ignored in South Africa. At last they are being honored
No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their names, forgotten for more than a century, have been revived ...
The Mysterious First Dinosaurs Could Be Buried Beneath the Amazon Rainforest, According to Scientists
New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...
Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no ...
Amsterdam Rising
Amsterdam celebrates its 750th anniversary. For nearly that long, Netherlands’ capital and most populous city has avoided ...
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10 Crazy South African History Facts
Diversity is the hallmark of South Africa. With an incredible array of contrasts, this country is known for its many ...
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African Parks closes deal to manage Ethiopia’s Gambella National Park
South Africa-based conservation NGO African Parks ... The Gambella region has been conflict-prone in recent years, with a documented history of human rights violations by the Ethiopian government ...
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The South African Communist Party takes itself by surprise (Part Two)
By 2007, when the SACP (and Cosatu) turned to Jacob Zuma to ‘save’ the Tripartite Alliance from Thabo Mbeki, and the party’s youth league called for the SACP to contest elections in its own right, ...