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In the new year, the locally-owned coffee shop announced it would be expanding with a second location at the Wisconsin Farmers Union’s in-progress Market on River (MOR) building in downtown Chippewa Falls, as well as a second announcement: a partnership ...

Oldenburg Vineyards is a small boutique winery in Stellenbosch. They make an outstanding range of red and white wines in, perhaps, South Africas most beautiful vineyard.

In the middle of a miserable British winter, remember that the sun is shining on vines all over the southern hemisphere including South Africa.

Does using commercial yeast make winemakers lazy? One South African winemaker thinks so...

A demonstration, to be held from Thursday to Monday, was called off after Mobility MEC Ricardo Mackenzie called a meeting.

Every pile of elephant dung holds a story and now scientists are unlocking these secrets thanks to a new way of collecting DNA.

A new report says that returning to the old ways of doing things is not an option for companies serious about competing for the best talent...

Despite demands for a solution to a decade-old problem, a Sir Lowry’s Pass community is left battling continuous electricity-supply disruptions allegedly as a result of illegal connections.

Share An international study led by the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Professor Rudi van Aarde suggests that the mass die-off of 350 elephants in one area of northern Botswana last year could be attributed to the fencing-in of these animals. Prof van Aarde, Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Chair of Conservation Ecology at UP’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, said while the causes of the deaths are “still unknown and will never be known,” the fencing-in of these elephants ...

scientists believe fences are behind the deaths of elephants in Botswana 26 January 2021 (Cape Town, South Africa – January 21, 2021) Scientists say the mass death of at least 350 elephants in Botswana last year was likely due to a network of fences preventing their ability to roam freely. Research published in PeerJ – Life and Environment says while the causes of the deaths "are still unknown – and will never be known” the confinement of large numbers of elephants to an area of the Oka...