Dwars River News Today

De Berg Nature Reserve has been declared South Africa’s 30th Ramsar site under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.

“The conservation and restoration of wetlands is crucial to achieving many of our national and global sustainable development goals. Estuaries, marshes and vleis, rivers and lakes and the biodiversity that they preserve matter for our health, food supply, tourism and jobs."

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has

Minister Barbara Creecy welcomes declaration of De Berg Nature Reserve as South Africa’s 30th Ramsar site

Franshoek - The R1.5 billion Berg River Dam, opened on Thursday, is expected to augment Cape Town's water supply by almost 20 percent.

On 16 November, the Diocese of Tzaneen in South Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of its establishment by decree of Pope Paul VI with Irish-born, John Durkin, as its first bishop. This is a typical story of how Irish and other missionaries built the Catholic Church across the continent of Africa. It also illustrates how their legacy lives on through the ministry of local and indigenous priests, nuns and brothers whom they recruited and trained.

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pretoria (South Africa) the Rev. Fr. Masilo John Selemela, of the clergy of Tzaneen, currently Rector of the National Major Seminary of St. John Vianney, assigning him the titular See of Nachingwea.

Agenzia Fides: Organo di informazione delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie dal 1927

BURGERSFORT - An 11-year-old boy drowned while swimming in a quarry on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened in Praktiseer, next to the illegal dump

The Poetic Land Art Exhibition will be free to the public.