Upper Karoo News Today

Every night, somewhere unseen across the vast, semidesert and dry savanna habitat of Southern Africa, the continent’s deadliest cat emerges to hunt. Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) are ideally suited for nocturnal stalking: They are evolutionarily older than jungle cats and domestic cats, boast exceptional night vision and hearing, and are believed to kill more prey […]

Chris Marais reminisces about times spent at the Williston Winter Festival, a cultural festival like no other, deep in the Northern Cape Karoo.

The Messenger, one of South Africa’s longest-surviving weekly country newspapers still operates in the Karoo.

A Northern Cape town full of legend and frontier drama.

There is something magical about Loxton in the Northern Cape.

Fraserburg, set in the middle of a key Northern Cape wool-farming district, still maintains an authentic country environment.

South African heritage breads are not only deliciously diverse but also have companionship baked, fried or steamed into each and every dough.

Glenneis Kriel Brown locusts were endemic to the semi-arid Karoo areas of South Africa and southern Namibia, formed smaller swarms and did not produce the same devastating cycles as the desert locusts. The brown locust is endemic to South African and southern Namibia, and must not be confused with the desert locust that was decimating crops in East and North Africa. Photo: Dr Roger Price The init...