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The blaze at Lohatla broke out at around 13:45 on Friday, 6 October



A veld fire has left destruction after rippling through the SA Army Combat Training Centre in Lohatla, Northern Cape. 



Avoid lighting fires in open areas, throwing cigarette butts out of vehicles and discarding bottles in the wilderness, the KwaZulu-Natal department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs has warned.

“Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you,” the lyrics of a Crowded House song reverberated in my head after a brilliant weekend in a beautiful little village called Nieu Bethesda.

Veld fires kill 18 in Zimbabwe-

HARARE, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Veld fires in Zimbabwe have killed 18 people this year, with the hectarage burnt up 58.6 percent from last year, a cabinet minister

Bessie Head published her first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather, while exiled in Botswana in 1968. Following the journey of its protagonist, Makhaya, an escapee from apartheid South Africa, the novel is a poignant exploration of hope in the midst of despair. Taking their title from Head’s novel, South African curators Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela have meticulously woven together a survey of important works in “When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940–2000�...

The SPCA is appealing to anyone who can assist their desperate attempts to raise funds as they tend to survivors of the devasting Cape fires.

A warning about encroachment deeper into Table Mountain and alien plant infestation was issued two years ago 19 April 2021 - 19:46 The fast rate at which the raging Table Mountain fire spread was due to strong south-easterly winds and “what could probably be a high fuel load on the mountain”. This according to North West University (NWU) School of Geo and Spatial Sciences senior lecturer Dr Sheldon Strydom, who explained that fire required three “ingredients” to occur... This art...