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Adam Liaw and other MasterChef alumni will headline a food and wine festival promising to showcase local food and drinks including an underground feast. 

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An edgy loop hike in Buckeye's Skyline Regional Park includes a summit side trip for those seeking a bigger challenge. Here's what to expect.

Between the towns of Gravelotte and Phalaborwa in Limpopo Province, on an outcrop of low granite hills, grows a species of African cycad that is to be found nowhere else on the planet. The plant, listed under CITES Appendix 1 — code for “most endangered,” which means that 183 countries have agreed to afford it the highest level of protection — is itemised officially as Encephalartos dyerianus, but is known colloquially as the Lillie Cycad. On the regulated market, as evidence of the extinction threat, a juvenile plant will set you back around R210,000. If the environmental impact ass...